ON PARK
ON PARK Century City
CLIENT Rabie Property Group
ARCHITECT & PRINCIPAL AGENT Vivid Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR DTP Quantity Surveyors
CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & FIRE ENGINEER Zutari
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER QDP Lighting & Electrical Design
MECHANICAL & WET SERVICES ENGINEER EKCON Consulting Engineers
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Planning Partners
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANT Frontline SHEQ
Positioned with strategic foresight at the eastern boundary of the Bridgeways Precinct in Cape Town’ s Century City, OnPark emerges not simply as a residential development, but as a vital urban artefact in the evolving civic narrative of this dynamic node. At the confluence of Century Boulevard’ s sweeping arc and the lush reinvention of Ratanga Park, OnPark asserts itself with bold geometric clarity and urban intelligence, anchoring the transitional seam between Bridgeways precinct established texture and the ambitious regeneration of Ratanga Park landscape.
Developed as a private residential scheme, OnPark comprises 121 apartments distributed around a circular form, an architectural gesture that is both iconic in silhouette and deeply responsive in function. It includes a sheltered central courtyard that accommodates both parking and amenity spaces, while further softening its perimeter with additional on-street parking, concealed behind generous landscape buffers.
But beyond its constituent parts and technical planning, OnPark’ s deeper narrative is rooted in urban choreography. It plays a pivotal role in connecting two distinctly different zones, one already bustling with commerce and residential density, the other still in the process of becoming. As such, the building serves not only its residents but also contributes meaningfully to the public life and spatial identity of Bridgeways at large.
MAIN CONTRACTOR WBHO Construction
PHOTOGRAPHY art. hub Productions
Rather than adopt a conventional rectilinear footprint, the design team responded with a circular built form
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