existing central cores to improve the quality of light and ventilation . The new residential units include a wide range of apartment types , from micro-studios to family-size two-bedroom flats , encouraging not just economic diversity , but also social diversity .
The new residential building also adopts a similar approach in its unit mix over 11 storeys overlooking the Johannesburg skyline . Jewel City comprises of apartments , commercial spaces , various retail spaces , offices , a school , a medical facility and a 5-a-side soccer club .
Industrial Heritage The industrial heritage of the buildings are honoured not just through the lightness of the architectural interventions to the façades by exposing the expressive minimalism of their industrial materiality – off-shutter concrete , brickwork and steel – but also through the naming of each building , which includes reference to their former incarnations as a centre of the diamond and gold trade , but reframed as more inclusive and representative of South Africa ’ s broader history .
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