PROJECT FEATURE
EMBASSY
TOWERS
EMBASSY TOWERS
Sandton, Johannesburg
DEVELOPERS IN A JV
New City Group
Concor
ARCHITECTS
GLH Architects
PROJECT MANAGERS
SIP Project Managers
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
CDL Quantity Surveyors
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
MVW Consulting Engineers
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
OneZero Consulting
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Adaptive Resource Engineers
WET SERVICES
Sutherland Engineers
S
ituated in the prestigious suburb of Sandhurst and enjoying unencumbered views
is the magnificent apartment building, Embassy Towers. Tucked behind the United
States Consulate in Sandton, the building enjoys breathtaking views across to
the Magaliesburg mountains as well as in the south, east and western directions due
to the residential scale of the surrounding neighbours.
Embassy Towers sits on the crest of the Sandhurst Ridge, thus occupying a proud
position on the southern edge of the Sandton CBD. The building itself is positioned as
close to the street frontage on Empire Place so as to provide large, lush private gardens
with many of the mature trees retained from the original residential property. This large
gardenscape and the small residential scale of the surrounding properties ensure that
views are unimpeded, thus creating the sense that one is occupying a large parkland
property, but with the convenience of being within the Sandton CBD.
The sparkling lights of Sandton are juxtaposed with the ample privacy and greenery
of the garden, reminiscent of the great apartment buildings of Central Park, New York
or Hyde Park, London. The natural fall of the site allowed for the entrance floor of the
building to be situated at street level while the elevation of the site allows for the ground
floor public area to look out over the neighbouring properties. This allows for the view
of Sandton to unfold as one enters through the large glass doors of the reception while
also retaining a human scale on the street frontage.
FIRE ENGINEERS
TWCE
LIFT CONSULTANTS
Solutions for Elevating
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANTS
Linspace
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANTS
Cairnmead Industrial Consultants
LAND SURVEYORS
Harald Wattrus
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING &
COMPLIANCE CONSULTANT
Interdesign Landscape Architects
TOWN PLANNER
Raven Town Planners
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Insite Landscape Architects
INTERIOR DESIGNERS
GLH Interiors
MAIN CONTRACTOR
Concor
PHOTOGRAPHY
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