Table Bay Harbour – Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art : MOCAA
Waterfront, Cape Town,
Western Cape
Architect 2011: HEATHERWICK STUDIO
| Table Bay Harbour – Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art : MOCAAWaterfront, Cape Town, Architect 2011: HEATHERWICK STUDIO |
 View from north west showing new entrance |
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Notes: The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is the largest art museum in Africa, and the largest museum in the world showcasing the art of Africa and its diaspora. It opened to the public on 22 September 2017. The museum is housed in an important historical landmark—the Table Bay Harbour : Grain Silos at the V&A Waterfront. The silos were built in 1921, and for the better part of a century, they were the industrial heart of the harbour area. They were also the tallest buildings in Africa for a long time. The original structure was comprised of 56 storage silos and an adjacent elevator building, and was made a heritage site. (Love Cape Town, accessed 2019 03 29) See also the Zeitz MOCAA website. |
 Concrete silos  Detail of concrete framed structure - with facetted and triangulated glazed panels - above the Art Museum  Glazed floor at roof level with silo terminations on periphery  Glazed floor at roof level with silo terminations on periphery  Glazed floor at roof level  View through flat glass roof down to floor of open area below  View from within central 'carved' out space inside silos  View up one silo towards glazed flat roof  View from within spiral stair  View down spiral stair  Gap between two buildings with glazed roof  Gap between two buildings with glazed roof light  Art work on red painted walk within gallery  Sculpture installation of life size wax figures  Detail of polished cut through existing concrete silo and modern structural concrete insert  Lift signage with format of repeated circles based on plan layout of silos  Restaurant signage  Old milling machinery installed as industrial artifact outside entrance |
 Drawing 54 of 365 by Shaun Gaylard  Opening exhibitions brochure |