Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2014 | Page 64

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

Land Use Challenges and
Building of the Bridge Link
The land compilation for Phases II and III of the
buildings was technically challenging. Firstly,
an important component of the building is the
bridge link over Jan Smuts Avenue to KPMG
offices at 85 Empire Road. To construct the
bridge link meant approaching the City of
Johannesburg to purchase Council owned land
adjacent to Jan Smuts Avenue as well as to

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obtain airway servitude over Jan Smuts Avenue
for the bridge itself. Secondly, a portion of
Girton Road had to be physically closed and a
new extension of Albany Road constructed to
replace it. This involved a legal road closure as
well as the subdivision of two stands to create
the new road reserve.
Along with the road re-alignment went the
re-alignment of all the engineering services and
their servitudes. Four land parcels were rezoned

KPMG Phase II