2010 SAPOA Excellence Award - Mixed-use category
2010 Europe + Africa Property Award - Best Leisure and Hospitality
Architecture for South Africa
The vision for this 29 300 sqm 5 star luxury hotel for African Pride was to create
striking, iconic and contemporary architecture.
This hotel comprises 108 key, 12 penthouse apartments and a wellness
centre. It became a new urban marker which responds sympathetically to the
surrounding environment.
Whilst retaining key elements of the existing historic building, it is transformed by
the imposition of a vast, light-fi lled atrium and the addition of uncompromisingly
contemporary architectural elements. It creates a new and transparent hub and
breathes fresh life into this key junction of the city. The hotel embodies the spirit
of re-invention currently happening in Cape Town.