GENERAL MOTORS SA
GENERAL MOTORS SA Woodmead North Office Park , Johannesburg
DEVELOPERS Zenprop Property Holdings
TENANT General Motors SA
ARCHITECT Paragon Architects
PROJECT MANAGER @ Hart Property Developers
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Schoombie Hartmann
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Sotiralis Consulting
MECHANICAL ENGINEER VMG Consulting
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Insite Landscape Architects
FIRE CONSULTANT Dorling & Associates
INTERIOR DESIGNER Paragon Interface
TENANT REPRESENTATIVE CAPEX Projects
MAIN CONTRACTOR Group Five Building
PHOTOGRAPHY Tristan McLaren
General Motors ’ new Gauteng head office is located on the edge of the busiest section of freeway in Southern Africa , and forms a part of the ‘ brand campus ’ developed by Zenprop Property Holdings at the Buccleuch Interchange in Johannesburg . This slice of land is now the home address for a number of companies seeking high exposure locations on the freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria .
Situation The General Motors ( GMSA ) Head Office is the fourth completed building developed by Zenprop and the third designed by Paragon Architects in this high-profile and high-impact location . It is a neighbour to the completed head offices of Group Five Housing and Building North ( 2005 ) and Nashua Kopano ( 2006 ), and is flanked on either side by the building sites of the soon-to-be-completed homes of Oracle South Africa and Motorola South Africa , also designed by the architects .
As a family , these buildings share a common genesis and a common set of design principles . The GMSA Head Office , however , is exceptional in the way it uses architecture to project and strengthen the GMSA brand . It fuses architecture and branding in an unexpected and direct way , and raises the bar in corporate design integration for progressive companies in South Africa .
The General Motors Head Office is the fourth completed building developed by Zenprop and the third designed by Paragon Architects in this high-profile and high-impact location
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