WILLOWBRIDGE
WILLOWBRIDGE Tygervalley
CLIENT Mini Cape Development ( EPS Kagiso Intaprop JV )
PROJECT MANAGERS Duncan Rhodes Project Management
ARCHITECTS VIVID Architects ( Project Architects ) Bentel Associates International ( Pick n Pay ) R & L Architects ( Woolworths )
QUANTITY SURVEYORS B & L Quantity Surveyors MLC Quantity Surveyors ( Woolworths )
CIVIL ENGINEERS HHO Africa EKCON Engineers ( Attfund )
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Sutherland
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Ubunye Engineering Services Arcus Gibb ( Pick n Pay )
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS WSP in Africa Basil Nair & Associates ( Pick n Pay ) Bam & Associates ( Woolworths )
TRAFFIC ENGINEER RWP Consulting Engineers
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER RA Bradshaw & Associates
PLUMBING ENGINEER Gemi Consultants
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CNDV Landscape Architects
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT CCA Environmental
LIGHTING CONSULTANT QDP Lighting & Electrical Design
FIRE PROTECTION CONSULTANT Bramley & Associates
SAFETY CONSULTANT Bitline SA
PLANNER & URBAN DESIGNER CNDV Landscape Architects
LAND SURVEYORS Matt Pepe & Associates Trevor Stander Land Surveyors
MAIN CONTRACTOR WBHO Construction
PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of VIVID Architects Fiona Barclay Smith
Willowbridge Lifestyle Centre is unique in that it combines a modern shopping mall with a traditional street shopping environment . The architects were first approached in 2002 by Entertainment Property Services . EPS had won the development bid for what was then known as the Minicape Site in Durbanville in 2000 . A two-year period followed in which numerous design proposals were investigated for a mixed use development . The client then looked for suitable co-developers and the site was re-zoned . In early 2005 , EPS joined forces with Kagiso Intaprop , a Johannesburg-based development company , and the joint venture development company Minicape Developments was formed .
Clients Brief From the outset , it was clear that the retail centre needed to be significantly different from its close neighbour , Tygervalley Centre , a large and successful ‘ traditional ’ regional shopping centre . Initially , the essence of the brief was to create a retail ‘ village in the valley ’, a unique lifestyle shopping experience . The architects worked closely with the client body in formulating and conceptualising the idea that this centre had to be very much lifestyle-orientated ; it should be open air and embody the notion of a linear retail high street .
The letting team had conceptualised a unique retail mix that consisted predominantly of décor , with fashion and convenience retail .
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