Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2014 | Page 57

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Aveng Grinaker-LTA
Main Contractor
B & L Quantity Surveyors
Quantity Surveyors
PJ Carew Consulting
Building Rating Consultants
Rabie Property Group
Property Developers &
Project Managers
S&T Consulting Engineers
Consulting Civil &
Structural Engineers
SolutionStation
Consulting Mechanical &
Electrical Engineers
Source Interior Brand Architects
Interior Designers
VIVID Architects
Architects

FIRST FLOOR

In addition, work has now started on a R1
billion mixed use development, The Square,
which will comprise a 900 seat Conference
Centre with 12 meeting rooms and a business
class lounge with a total capacity of 1,900 over
20 venues; a 125 bedroom business hotel,
showrooms with residential apartments above;
a 8,800m2 office block with ground floor
restaurant and service retail and a structured
parking garage. Anchoring the development
will be a bustling, multi-functional square onto
which restaurants and the other hospitality
elements will flow.
According to Vivid Architects, every city
should have at least one public square that
offers a dynamic, vibrant and safe environment
for the public to enjoy.
Century City Conference Centre is one of
three buildings that will form the focal point of
the Square, a beautifully proportioned space
that will offer users the opportunity to socialise,
relax, dine and be entertained.
It has been designed as the hub and pivotal
node of this precinct that will influence and
generate future planning of its surrounds. The
strong architectural form and aesthetic of the
conference centre has been taken through to
the Century City Hotel, to form an L –shaped
footprint that is then offset by the more sculptural
and whimsical sheer glass façades of the 7
storey freestanding office building that forms
the balance of the Square. This environment
Bridgeway

is further enhanced by the introduction of the
extended canal system of Century City and bold
landscaping themes.
The Square is the largest development
undertaken to date by the Rabie Property Group
at Century City and, together with other projects
recently completed, under construction or in
the pipeline, brings to more than R21 billion the
value of development which has taken place in
the 250ha mixed use precinct since the first sods
were turned in 1997.

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