LOWVELD MALL
LOWVELD MALL Hazyview
CLIENT Twin City
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Matla Quantity Surveyors
ARCHITECT MDS Architecture
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Streng Consult
MECHANICAL & FIRE ENGINEER Pretocon
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Cupro Consulting
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Daniel Rebel Landscape Architects
MAIN CONTRACTOR Gima Construction Projects
PHOTOGRAPHY Louis van Zyl
MDS Architecture was appointed to reimagine and reposition the existing Lowveld Mall in Hazyview, Mpumalanga. What they have delivered, in partnership with developer and owner Twin City, is a reinvention grounded in the cultural, ecological and experiential character of one of South Africa’ s most spectacular landscapes.
Hazyview is located at the gateway to the Kruger National Park, flanked by working fruit farms and split by the Sabie River. It is a place of raw natural beauty, and this context became the primary design brief, coupled with taking the bushveld lodge and interpreting this in a modern contemporary way for a shopping centre context.“ We needed to find a thread that would bring together a building that had lost its identity after several extensions over time,” explains Donald McGillivray, partner at MDS Architecture.“ That thread became a contemporary interpretation of the Bushveld boutique style
A bold contemporary canopy defines Lowveld Mall’ s renewed exterior, filtering light and expressing a warm bushveld lodge character in a modern retail context
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