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Alliance Assurance Co Building - Protea Assurance House
Cape Town, Western Cape

Frederick McIntosh (Fred) GLENNIE: Architect
LOUIS KAROL ASSOCIATES: Architect

Date:1933 : 1990
Type:Offices
Style:Adaptive Reuse
Status:Extant
Street:40 Burg Street

 


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Coordinates:
33°55'23.33" S 18°25'13.11" E Alt: 34m

Has served as headquarters of this company for over half a century. This building was extended and adaptively reused in 1990 by LOUIS KAROL ASSOCIATES.

(SAB Oct 1933:31 tend; AB&E Sep 1933: 47; AB&E Sep 1934:7, 9, 11; Pryce-Lewis list 15 895)

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.


References:

Cole, DI. 2002. The building stones of Cape Town : a geological walking tour. Cape Town: Council for Geoscience. pg 64
Muwanga, Christina. 1998. South Africa : a guide to recent architecture. London : Köln: Ellipsis : Könemann. pg 24-27
Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 142 item 56.7
Walker, Michael. 2010. A Statement In Stone. Cape Town: Privately published by Michael Walker. pg 33