on the bridge with comfortable furniture
and crystal chandeliers suspended over
coffee tables.
MDS Architecture originally designed
Sandton City and has been involved with the
centre over the years. “There’s an intuition that
has evolved along with the evolution of Sandton
City and we have learned how to create
understated elegance, a skill which has served
Diamond Walk well,” he concludes.
MAIN CONTRACTOR’S COMMENT
The client brief entailed the reconfiguration of
level 6 in the Sandton City shopping centre
spanning from the fountain court to the hotel,
with the scope of works comprising: the
stripping out of the existing mall, shops, toilet
and banqueting areas and the conversion of this
space into a new shopping mall, line shops and
mall toilets. Further upgrades included the
construction of new hotel toilets, meeting
rooms, retail mechanical plant and the
Convention Centre bridge link.
Construction Challenges
The site was located in the existing Sandton Sun
and the adjacent mall, meeting rooms and
Convention Centre bridge link.
Working within a live site, particularly in a
fully operational retail and hotel environment,
remains, at best, a challenge with regards to
public safety and minimal disruption to tenants
and shoppers. The management of noise and
dust pollution, as well as keeping construction
Diamond Walk
personnel isolated from end-users were key
considerations in the team’s construction methodology and planning.
The project’s location adjacent to a 5 S F