Architect and Builder January/February 2016 | Page 36

and houses an entertainment deck for the tenants,
apart from some prime office space where FWJK
has relocated its offices,
Planning
The 26,000m2 building consists of 13 half-levels of
parking - 5 underground and the remainder above,
with 11 office floors and a retail component on
street level. Due to the step-backs of the façade,
the position of the existing main entrance in the
historical Touchstone building and the layout of
the parking, the position of the central core was
predetermined from the start. The challenge was
now to create the most of exposure for the offices,
to provide maximum layout flexibility (on a floorplate
that changes from level to level due to building
setbacks) and to minimise circulation space.

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The structural core houses not only the four lifts,
but also a set of fire escape stairs on the one side
and the fireman’s lift lobby and disabled ablutions
on the other. The remainder of the ablutions in the