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 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 realignment went the realignment of all the engineering services and their servitudes . Four land parcels were rezoned to have the same increased land use rights and then consolidated into one stand .
This process has now been completed after five years of negotiations and compliance with the legal requirements of a public tender . The Johannesburg Property Company was an integral part of this process and the result is evidence of their constructive response when approached to consider a land assembly program of this nature .
DESIGN The Phase I project provides the functional facilities for the Corporate Head Office . These comprise an auditorium with 330 seats capable of expansion to 520 seats with the use of acoustic partitions ( 9m in height ). These are able to traverse from the east elevation to close off the atrium to provide privacy to the expanded auditorium . The
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