PROJECT FEATURE
ALLANDALE
ALLANDALE
Waterfall City, Gauteng
CLIENT
Attacq
ARCHITECTS
Aevitas Group
Empowered Spaces Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
NWS Quantity Surveyors
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
L & S Consulting
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
CKR Consulting Engineers
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Plantech Associates
WET SERVICES
Wat-Sol Design Technology
FIRE ENGINEERS
Specialised Fire Technology
W
aterfall City is a new city development that is conveniently located between
Sandton and Pretoria with easy access - via Allandale Road - to the N1 highway.
It is the largest urban concept development in South Africa and brings all
the advantages of being able to plan a new city from scratch. With 800,000m 2 of
development rights in the CBD alone, it will be a truly integrated mixed-use development
that focuses on best-practice Urban Design Principles to create a pleasant and sustainable
live/work environment. The Allandale Building is the latest office building to be completed
in the City and is home to new corporate head offices for Schneider Electric, Wisetech
Global and Trans Africa Projects.
The site is positioned within the new Waterfall City CBD with very good exposure
to Allandale Road and easy access from the main ring road of the City. The site itself is
a pentagon shape with good visibility from all boundaries. There is also a considerable
slope across the site with almost a 6m level difference from east to west.
Brief
The brief was to create a contemporary, P-grade building with enough flexibility to
house either a large single tenant or an array of medium-sized blue-chip tenants. The
architecture needed to set a new standard for buildings within the City that was in line
with international best-practice for commercial development. As such, it was critical
that the building created a healthy environment for its staff and that it encouraged a
GREEN BUILDING CONSULTANTS
Solid Green Consulting
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Daniel Rebel Landscape Architects
INTERIOR DESIGNERS:
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Interiors for Change /I4C
INTERIOR DESIGNERS:
WISETECH
Giant Leap
INTERIOR DESIGNERS:
TRANS AFRICA
Inspyre
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS
Seaton Thomson & Associates
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANTS
Cairnmead Industrial Consultants
MAIN CONTRACTOR
Group Five Building
PHOTOGRAPHY
Karl Rogers (Aevitas)
Hannes Uys (i4c)
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Allandale