Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2014 | Page 35

‘Floating’ glass box
breakaway rooms were
cleverly cantilevered 6m
off the main structure

designed to cater for the predicted worse case building that would form part of the final
development of the Silo Square precinct. This meant two stage pumps, where only the
lower pressure discharge port was utilised for the No 1 Silo building. The high pressure
port would serve the next development (now underway) which is the old silo building
revamp and extensions.
• The No 1 Silo had a piped LPG supply taken off the underground main, fed from the
bulk gas tank located adjacent to the Caltex service station, that runs past the site. This
had three take-off branches after coming into the building. The one was capped for
future extension LPG supply requirements in this precinct, where the other two were
for the 1 Silo restaurant kitchen and for the residential block (where every appointment

No.1 Silo

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