of office space , Scatec will occupy a portion of the 2nd floor , and there are currently further negotiations in place with other prospective tenants . Ferrari , Grohe , Limeline & Minotti have located their showrooms in the ground floor retail space .
The Composition The building sits on a basement , which accommodates parking and primary building services . This basement required the excavation of almost the entire site , with contractors picking through an area of 190 x 35m , down to ± 7m deep almost entirely into Malmesbury Shale . The resultant
two level parking basement provides the required 350 parking bays .
The roof of the basement forms a common podium over which the building is then divided into two halves . As Dock Road dips towards the mid-point of the site , the podium appears to elevate itself out of the ground , a condition which also occurs consistently along the canal edge . Rock that was excavated out of the basement has been used to clad the raised podium along the canal edge .
Although actually separate structures , these two buildings share a common design language and have similar , mirrored floorplates – which are
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