Construction World December 2022

ARCHITECTS

PROJECT INFORMATION

• Company entering: JAKUPA Architects and Urban Designers • Client: City of Cape Town • Start date: 2013 • End date: 2022 • Main Contractor: Haw & Inglis • Architect: J AKUPA Architects and Urban Designers • Principal Agent: DeltaBed • Quantity Surveyor: AMPS QS • Consulting Engineers: Element Consulting Engineers and Arup

DISTRICT SIXHOUSING, CAPE TOWN

S i te Q has a steep gradient which needed to be mi t igated so as to adequately al low for a variety of uni t typologies . I t overlooks Table Bay to the north and i s cradled by Table Mountain to the south. Signi ficant ly, the original Hanover Street , a high street

in the hi storic Di strict Six , forms the northern boundar y of the s i te and i s celebrated by the creat ion of a publ ic open space newly named “Old Hanover Street Square”. The adjacent neo-class ical 1886 Moravian Church i s accessed via the original Russel l Street which edges

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