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TENANTS Routledge Modise Attorneys Zenprop Property Holdings
CLIENT & DEVELOPER Friedshelf 108
PRINCIPAL Zenprop Property Holdings
PROJECT MANAGER Team Project Management
ARCHITECT Paragon Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Schoombie Hartmann
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Sotiralis Consulting
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER CKR Consulting Engineers
MECHANICAL ENGINEER VMG Consultants
WET SERVICES ENGINEER Technical Design Considerations
ACOUSTIC ENGINEER Pro-Acoustic Consortium
TRAFFIC ENGINEER Infragen Consulting Engineers
FIRE CONSULTANT Hennie Hamman & Associates
SAFETY CONSULTANT Comprac
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Insite Landscape Architects
INTERIOR DESIGN Switch Interior Architecture
FOOD SERVICE DESIGN Talman & Associates
LAND SURVEYORS Charlie Crowther Survey
TOWN PLANNERS Gavin Edwards Town Planners
MAIN CONTRACTOR Stocks Building Africa
PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of Paragon Architects
The new head offices of Routledge Modise Attorneys and of Zenprop have recently been opened after a year-long process of redevelopment of the site . The completed building has not the faintest resemblance to the nondescript structure that has occupied the site for the past eighteen years . It has erased any trace of the dull ‘ corduroy concrete ’ architecture of a late 80s speculative office building . Like so many buildings of its kind , the existing block was placed diagonally across its site , facing due north , with scant regard for the future functioning of the site and the changing needs of tenants in the commercial property market .
Site The original building was not only dull and nondescript , but functionally deficient and not planned for change and flexibility . Awkwardly positioned in terms of geometries , the steep fall of the site towards Fredman Drive did not help . It was , in great Sandton tradition , a building without a front door , dissociated from the street , and set squarely in the middle of its site - the ultimate self-referential rational grid block .
The site planning solution consists of two triangular wedges of multi-level accommodation placed on the south-eastern and the north-western corners of the existing building : one devoted to parking , the other to office , gym and canteen accommodation . The awkward site has been filled to its extreme edges by these two annexes . The
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