Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa September/October 2014 | Page 34

The majority of the building
is painted Plascon’s
Artist Canvass and the
architects have made use
of Plascon’s Crazy Daisy
on the north fire escape

The development along Oxford Road has
been mainly in the form of 3-storey office
buildings, although the recently completed
Ipanema apartment building, comprising
some 68 apartments, is interspersed between
these office buildings, giving the Houghton
suburb an element of mixed use.
Zoning
The property, Stand 1973 Houghton,
required rezoning from Single Residential
to Business in order to proceed with
the project. The architects were closely
involved with the Houghton Resident’s

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Association in developing a suitable interface between what is probably one of
Johannesburg’s most prestigious residential
areas and the new line of business developing
fronting onto Oxford Road. This resulted
in generous set backs for the building on
the road that separates the Business area
from Residential.
Also included is a generous landscaping
border along the sidewalk facing the
residential area in which mature trees have
been planted. On the Oxford Road side of the
site, the architects had to deal with a set back
of some 13 metres from the property boundary

Oxford Terrace