Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Culemborg Goods Offices Administration Building Foreshore, Cape Town, Western Cape Brian George Lewis MANSERGH: Architect

Date: 1952-1955 Client: SAR&H Type: Offices Style: Contemporary Status: Demolished

The building was prominent in a group surrounding a marshaling courtyard for delivery vehicles, creating a facade onto the eastern Front of what was to become the Foreshore development. Because of the nature of the landfill the building stands on concrete piles with a tanked basement to prevent water ingress of the high water table some 5m below ground level. It is a three storeyed concrete frame structure with a central utility tower housing lifts, water tanks and caretaker facilities. The facade is of prefabricated reconstituted cream stone ciment fondu. The layout is symmetrical although making provision for extensions and conforms with the overall planning requirements of the prevailing Foreshore Plan. The wording on the English foundation stone reads as follows: This stone was set by the first Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary for the Netherlands in the Union of South Africa His Excellency J. van den Berg On which occasion this goods station was named CULEMBORG Cape Town 21st June 1952