CENTURY CITY
SQUARE
CLIENT AND PROJECT MANAGER (OVERALL)
Rabie Property Group
PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS & MASTER PLANNERS (OVERALL)
Vivid Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
B & L Quantity Surveyors (Conference Centre &
Parking Structure)
BTKM (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments. Apex)
PROJECT PLANNER
Binnington Copeland & Associates
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Aurecon
Sonnekus & Toerien (Apex)
CIVIL ENGINEERS (BASEMENT. INTERNAL ROADS)
Aurecon
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
QDP Lighting & Electrical (Conference Centre & Parking
Structure)
RWP Cape (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments)
JD Reitz (Apex)
HVAC ENGINEERS
Basil Nair and Associates (Conference Centre & Parking
Structure)
WSP Consulting (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments)
Spoormaker & Partners (Apex)
BULK SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE (ELECTRICAL)
Descom
BULK SERVICES (CIVIL - CANALS, ROADWAYS &
EXTERNAL WORKS, TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION)
HHO
WET SERVICES/PLUMBING
Aurecon (Conference Centre & Parking Structure, Apex)
WSP Consulting (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments)
ACOUSTIC AND AUDIO VISUAL DESIGN
Mtshali-Moss Projects Africa
RATIONAL FIRE DESIGN (ENTIRE SITE)
Aurecon
HEALTH & SAFETY
Eppen-Burger and Associates
FAÇADE
LH Consulting (Apex)
GREENSTAR CONSULTANT
PJ Carew
LIGHTING SPECIALIST
QDP Lighting & Electrical (External Works)
LIFT DESIGN
Aurecon
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Source IBA (Conference Centre & Parking Structure)
Origin Interiors (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments)
CONFERENCING CONSULTANT
Plan Red
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OFFICER
Ecosense
UTILITY ADMINISTRATION SERVICES
UAS
OFF SITE INFORMATION STORAGE
EQF
WIND SPECIALIST
Adam Goliger
TOWN PLANNERS & LANDSCAPING
Planning Partners
LAND SURVEYOR
David Hellig & Abrahamse
MAIN CONTRACTOR
Murray & Roberts Western Cape
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fiona Barclay Smith; Inge Prins Photography
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A
ll great cities have an urban square that offers a dynamic,
vibrant and safe environment for the public to enjoy. Century
City Square is a unique new mixed-use development focused
in and around an exciting public square in the heart of the
Bridgeways precinct.
ARCHITECT’S REPORT
The precinct is bounded on Sable and Ratanga roads with access directly
off Century Boulevard. A new internal roadway system was designed to
access the development and adjoining sites along with a new one-way
exit off ramp onto Sable road to mitigate tr affic pressure at peak times.
The square was conceptualised as the heart and soul of this precinct
as well as instigator, influence and generator for future development of
this undeveloped area of Century City. The development comprises a
number of buildings all sitting on top of a single level super basement that
includes a conference centre, a hotel, commercial office space, residential
apartments, a structured parking building and “folly” pavilion at the open
end of the square. All buildings enjoy nested parking areas in the super
basement below and dedicated secure access controlled entrances at
both basement and ground floor levels.
Vivid Architects were tasked with the urban design framework of this
precinct. The current layout and design has recognised and reinforced
the needs of the pedestrian user over vehicles, an appropriate human
scale and massing of the square, the importance of existing gateways,
focal points and view corridors and a full understanding of the optimum
orientation and wind protection. The architecture has employed the
maximum use of glass at the ground floor plane to ensure transparency
and the seamless interface between inside and out, whilst the brief has
ensured that restaurants, coffee shops and the hotel`s public areas spill
out onto the square to ensure that there is a constant life and energy.
The scheme has also taken cognisance of the new regulations
governing the disposal of storm water and, for this reason, it was an
opportunity to extend the existing Century City canal system, not only
to deal with the storm water, but also to give the urban square a water’s
edge that will compliment the hard and soft landscaping of the precinct.
The overall precinct plan has been thoroughly interrogated to ensure
strong pedestrian connectivity between this new urban environment
and the existing broader Century City. Special care has been taken
to encourage pedestrian movement patterns and to ensure that the
pedestrian experience is predominant over that of the vehicle. Traffic
Century City Square