Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2014

PROJECT KPMG PHASE II East Campus, Parktown CLIENT Old MutuaI Property ARCHITECTS Impendulo Design Architects QUANTITY SURVEYORS AECOM CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS Ndodana Consulting Engineers ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CKR Consulting Engineers MECHANICAL ENGINEERS SPN Consulting Engineers FIRE CONSULTANTS TWCE SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANTS Aurecon South Africa PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT Orion Project Managers INTERIOR DESIGNER Plan IA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Red Landscape Architects HEALTH & SAFETY SHEM MAIN CONTRACTOR Stefanutti Stocks 62 KPMG Phase II The new KPMG East Campus in Parktown, Johannesburg is an R820 million project being implemented over three phases PHOTOGRAPHS SUPPLIED BY IMPENDULO DESIGN ARCHITECTS T he first phase involved the extensive refurbishment of the Wanooka (House) a heritage building dating back to 1899 and was completed in 2010. KPMG required a design that was sympathetic to their West Campus while respecting the heritage building Wanooka and the urban scale of the ‘gateway’ to the City, formed between the present West Campus and new East Campus. While creating something with a signature and presence for the Client, it has been important to those residents in the neighbourhood that the low rise ‘office park’ feel in the area be retained. Phase II of the KPMG East Campus has now been completed and Phase III has commenced on site. KPMG required 24,000m2 of campus style office buildings using similar design and planning principles used at their recently completed building in Canary Wharf, London. The project required land assembly and land swaps with the City Council of Johannesburg. KPMG Phase II

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