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Keating Building Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Gauteng Cyril STOLOFF: Architect

Date: 1954 Type: Flats with shops to street Status: Unknown Street: 105 Quartz Street

First curtain-wall building in Johannesburg with spandrels of polished, toughened plate-glass. Shop fronts of bronze set in blue ceramic tiles. At roof level there is a shell-concrete pergola (Greig, 1971: 150). All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Keating Building Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 150