Architect and Builder September/October 2015

PROJECT FEATURE PALM ROYALE PALM ROYALE Century City DEVELOPERS Oasis JV comprising Rabie Property Group and Harries Consortium ARCHITECTS Raymond Alexander QUANTITY SURVEYORS Forsyth Vermeulen & Partners CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS De Villiers Sheard ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS JD Reitz Consulting Engineers HEALTH AND SAFETY Safe Working Practice LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Planning Partners LAND SURVEYORS David Hellig & Abrahamse MAIN CONTRACTOR WBHO Construction PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of Rabie Property Group 34 P alm Royale, the majestic third apartment block in the Oasis Luxury Retirement Resort in Century City, has proved to be a runaway success with all 58 apartments having been sold for a total value of R260 million. DEVELOPERS COMMENT The spacious two and three bedroom apartments range in size from 100m2 to 237m2 and vary from garden apartments to penthouses. Priced from R2,5 million to just under R9 million, many of the apartments` boast spacious balconies suitable for entertaining with wonderful mountain and sea views. The first two phases of the Oasis development consisted of Palm Springs and Palm Grove apartment blocks with 174 units in total and a Club House, the facilities of which would not be out of place in a five star hotel and of which all residents automatically enjoy membership. These facilities include a 25m indoor heated pool where regular water aerobics classes are given by a qualified teacher, a massage room, sauna, steam room, a gym, a library, lounge areas, a restaurant, bar, bridge room and billiard room. Also completed in phase one was the 110-bed Oasis Care Centre which offers hotelstyle assisted living apartments, frail care and a specialised Alzheimer’s/Dementia unit as well as physical rehabilitation. Palm Royale is linked undercover to the Oasis Club, the facilities of which have also been extended with the completion of Palm Royale to include a new grand multi-purpose recreational/entertainment venue with a patio looking out over ponds and a new hobbies room creatively built in a hollowed out berm that separates the resort from Ratanga Road. Palm Royale

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