African project:
Nando’s Central Kitchen
Onepointzero and ASM Architects – with the input of over 50 local designers
and craftspeople – have designed a new workplace and HQ for worldwide
restaurant group Nando’s which is located in Johannesburg, South Africa.
T
he collective ramshackle
factories, buildings and
warehouses that comprised
the original home and
headquarters of Nando’s
were recently given an
exciting, transformative
makeover. What was once
the humble sauce bottling
plant of this South African
food and restaurant giant, is now a
contemporary, cohesive and truly Africaninspired precinct accommodating Nando’s
worldwide licensing offices, trading offices,
training facilities among other department
campuses.
With Onepointzero having been
awarded the interior design contract,
the gentrification of the existing
offices and distribution warehouse in
Lorentzville, Johannesburg, has seen a
new identity emerging for the brand that
is as authentically modern African as it is
cosmopolitan.
sustainable materials has been pivotal
to the build”. A project that has taken 18
months to complete, has reached beyond
its monetary investment and square
meterage of 7 500m2 plus, and has firmly
cemented Nando’s as an iconic heritage
landmark on South African soil. From
office and legal space to an in house gym,
restaurant and culinary invention centre,
Nando’s continues to provide not only
customer satisfaction through its ongoing
food and beverage supply chain, but a
sampling o