PROJECT FEATURE
WATERWAY
HOUSE
WATERWAY HOUSE
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
CLIENT
V&A Waterfront
PROJECT MANAGERS &
PRINCIPAL AGENTS
AECOM
ARCHITECTS
dhk
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
BTKM Quantity Surveyors
COMMISSIONING AGENTS
Matrix Consulting Services
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Nadeson Consulting Services
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
SolutionStation Consulting Engineers
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
NAKO Triocon Consulting Engineers
FAÇADE ENGINEERS
LH Consulting Engineers
TRAFFIC ENGINEERS
GIBB
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANTS
AGAMA Energy
W
aterway House is a substantial new office development located at the
gateway to Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, the city’s premier tourist attraction
and new business address of choice.
The newly completed Waterway House is the first phase of the new mixed-use
Canal District. The Canal District creates a gateway for the V&A Waterfront and aims
to integrate it with adjacent city neighbourhoods – both via the canal running from the
CTICC to Alfred Basin and new pedestrian movement routes along Dock Road and into
Prestwich Street. Development in this district will also include Battery Park; a new city
park around the remnants of the historic Amsterdam Battery, with canal side shops and
cafés, as well as residential apartments.
Situated on Dock Road, Waterway House sits on a narrow linear site just over 200m
long and around 45m wide, between the road and the canal. The new building is an
unashamedly long linear building, following the shape of the site – its architectural
articulation, both in terms of spatial form and tectonic modulation, mitigate and reinforce
this linearity, while the breaks in the façade enable strong visual links from Dock Road
back to the canal and Signal Hill beyond.
Heritage
The V&A Waterfront is rich with heritage, with several significant historical structures
ranging from remnants of early Dutch coastal fortifications from the 18th century to the
Grain Silo complex which dates from the early 20th century.
The Waterway House site is adjacent to the remaining fragment of the Amsterdam
Battery, originally constructed in c. 1781 and now a protected National Heritage Resource.
The building design serves to protect the visual connection between the Battery and
ACOUSTIC ENGINEERS
Machoy Acoustics
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANTS
Eppen-Burger & Associates
GEOTECH ENGINEERS
Kantey & Templer Consulting Engineers
PORT AND COASTAL ENGINEERS
PRDW
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
OVP Associates
INTERIORS
InHouse Brand Architects (BAT)
Savile Row (EY)
MAIN CONTRACTOR
NMC
PHOTOGRAPHY
Wieland Gleich
Adrian Shields (EY Interiors)
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Waterway House