echoes of Rio de Janeiro’ s beachfront apartment culture in its sweeping balconies and oceanfacing geometry, while the restrained palette and layered façades recall the glamour of Sea Point’ s own post-war apartment boom. The references are deliberate but not nostalgic. Rather than reproducing historical forms, the project reinterprets them for a contemporary urban audience.
Designing for Light, Views and Urban Experience One of the project’ s most intriguing design gestures lies in how it manipulates orientation. All apartments have balconies and either mountain outlooks or commanding views of Silke’ s pastel-coloured Tropicana Hotel across the road. Although much of the site sits behind Beach Road, the hotel component( The Cole) was
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