SASOL
50 KATHERINE STREET
DEVELOPERS Alchemy Properties Sasol Pension Fund
PROJECT MANAGER CAPEX Projects
ARCHITECT Paragon Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Rider Levett Bucknall
TOWN PLANNER Gavin Williams
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Sotiralis Consulting Engineers
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Quad Africa Consulting
MECHANICAL ENGINEER Adaptive Resource Engineers
FAÇADE ENGINEER Pure Consulting
WET SERVICES IZAZI Consulting Engineers
FIRE ENGINEER TWCE
GREEN BUILDING CONSULTANT PJ Carew Consulting
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Linspace
SAFETY CONSULTANT Cairnmead Industrial Consultants
LIFT CONSULTANT Solutions for Elevating
KITCHEN CONSULTANT KDH Catering Design Concepts
SPACE PLANNING & INTERIORS Paragon Interface
TENANT ADVISOR , MANAGER & REPRESENTATIVE FOR SASOL Betapoint
TENANT ADVISOR FOR SASOL Baseline Project Management
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Insite Landscape Architects
MAIN CONTRACTOR Aveng Grinaker-LTA
PHOTOGRAPHY Tristan McLaren ; Infrastructurephotos ; Insite ; Johan Pretorius ; C & C Safety Glass
Arguably the most impressive and ambitious commercial building project undertaken in South Africa in the last 10 years , the new Sasol building is a testament to the vision and skill of the entire professional team appointed to this iconic structure .
Background During May 2013 , Paragon Architects was appointed as the architect of a new corporate office on 50 Katherine Street in Sandton to be built with Alchemy Property Investment and Development Company and the Sasol Pension Fund . The 11-storey , 47m tall office complex has 67,000m 2 of rentable area , almost 100,000m 2 of basement parking for over 3,000 cars , and more than 3,000m 2 of landscaping .
Sasol , the tenant , is a very large multinational petrochemical organisation with a wide variety of business units and activities . This building was to replace their current occupation of 17 buildings in Rosebank and elsewhere in Johannesburg and unify the Sasol corporate culture . The new building reduces Sasol ’ s office footprint by almost 40 %.
The Sasol logo , which encapsulates the company ’ s values , provided the departure point for the conceptual design of the building . Best described as : ‘[ a ] central sphere denoting stability , while the six rotating ‘ business units ’ suggest a force greater than the sum of its parts – strength through synergy .’ They further add : ‘ At the same time as the new logo , a set of shared values and brand characteristics was launched to guide everyone on how best to live up to our brand promise .’
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