Architect and Builder April/May 2019 | Page 69

The balance of the podium is occupied by offices and designed to be flexible in nature in order to respond to possible future changes in use and opportunities that may occur, as this currently quite isolated precinct becomes more connected to the V&A Waterfront to the north and west and new developments to the north, including the new passenger cruise terminal. The Yacht Club Pedestrian Areas The hard and soft landscaped and colonnaded area between the eastern podium and the canal on the south provides a wonderful place to pause along the public canal edge walkway. Most of the pedestrian movement happens on the south of the building and access to the various components of the building are situated on this edge. There is 69