from Stirling Street , contains all visitors parking , and is contiguous with the ground floor security zone and entrance foyer .
The public entrance to the triple volume entrance foyer is on De Villiers Street enclosed with a 12m high flush glazed curtain-wall . Visitors pass security on street level and then travel one floor up to the main building ’ s reception area .
This floor also houses the strategically positioned newsroom , close to reception and with direct access to the studios and the outside . The news department and the centrally placed state-of-the-art studios , form the backbone to the entire ETV operation . This floor , together with the
ground floor , form the stone-clad solid podium of the building ,
All of the administrative and office functions are housed over floors 2-5 and are planned to accommodate ETV staff requirements well into the future . Each floor is designed along a planning principle the architects have dubbed the ‘ racetrack ’. This is a ring of circulation and exposed services reticulation that provides a consistent , strong organisational diagram that allows for multiple variations and adaptations , as needs change , of similar floors while providing easy access and legibility to a complex arrangement of services and data reticulations .
358 ETV Head Office