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Victoria Junction Complex
Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape

KCvR ARCHITECTS: Architect

Date:1900s, 1996
Type:Commercial mixed use
Style:Adaptive Reuse
Status:Extant
1997SAIA Award of Merit

 


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Coordinates:
33°54'46.66" S 18°25'02.04" E Alt: 25m

Conversion of Green Point telephone works industrial style buildings into commercial mixed use and fashionable residential loft-space living. The redesign demonstrates a high degree of consistency in material use and spacial gradation.

It consists of an hotel, the "Protea Hotel Cape Town Victoria Junction", offices and shops on street level.


References:

Malan, Antonia, Halkett, D J & Hart, Timothy James Graham . 2017. Grave encounters : archaeology of the burial grounds, Green Point, South Africa. Cape Town: ACO Associates cc. pg 54, 70
Muwanga, Christina. 1998. South Africa : a guide to recent architecture. London : Köln: Ellipsis : Könemann. pg 36-37