Architect and Builder Retail Retrospective | Page 408

Ellerines , the Post Office , McDonalds and many other smaller chains totalling a gross leasable area ( GLA ) of 20,000m 2 , a dedicated taxi area and 995 parking bays to satisfy the need for convenience shopping .
Design The massing on site with its future phase 2 will eventually achieve a mix of the required retail visibility and road edge definition . During the design stages , the shed-like building typology , with its very long walkway , created a loss of scale wherein it would have been difficult to identify with ones relevant location and one would only have known where one was if one read the signs , so to speak . By breaking up the façade and by celebrating the entrances into legible components on strategic positions of the building that binds it all together , makes Kenako Mall a more meaningful , friendly and recognisable place to shop .
With the main entrance visible from Uitenhage Road and the secondary entrance visible from Spondo Road , the structures constructed out of
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