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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
NOVEMBER
2015
Winner – retail category: The Watershed
at the V&A Waterfront
‘The Watershed’ is the name given to the redeveloped
Blue Shed, situated along the pedestrian route from the
Victoria Wharf Mall to the Two Oceans Aquarium at the
V&A Waterfront. Previously, part of this historic warehouse
was occupied by a craft market, with the remainder having
long been vacant and in poor condition.
The Watershed project was born out of an urban
strategy to improve and upgrade the pedestrian experi-
ence, whilst also seeking to provide a so-called Innovation
Hub and exhibition space. There was also a desire to rein-
state and enhance the Blue Shed craft market. To achieve
this, the alterations involved opening the gable ends of the
building, and re-routing the pedestrians through the ware-
house to create an inside-out/outside-in space, with two
new floor levels to house the Innovation Hub, exhibition
hall and retail tenancies.
Winner – cladding category: ‘Peak Cap’
at Multichoice City
Passed by thousands of commuters daily, the underslung
cladding to the peak cap feature on the new Multichoice
City, which won the inaugural Global Roofing Solutions
Cladding category at Steel Awards 2015, must be one of the
most visible cladding solutions in South Africa. Multichoice
City also won the Architectural category.
The judges said that this project was a clear winner.
“Hanging underslung cladding is a process not for the feint
hearted. It is exceptionally difficult to do well especially
with the hidden fixing type cladding used on this project,”
they said.
The cladding is to a 12 metre cantilever which follows
its structural shape requirements tapering from width at the
support end to a narrow tip. The project team said that the
installation procedure was a challenge due to the length of
the sheet and the fact that the underslung design meant few
or no blemishes. “The curved end detail succeeds in making
the extremely narrow tip edge of the cantilever the impor-
tant feature it has become in the finishing of this daring
architecture,” they said.
Winner – factory and warehouse
category: Value Logistics Distribution
Centre
The judges said of Value Logistics’ new Distribution
Centre, in Kraaifontein, Western Cape that “this is one of
those model projects in which from start to finish one can
see that the structure was well-designed, that the team
worked closely to make the programme work and that the
architects could fulfil their vision of a highly aesthetically
pleasing office facility.”
The installation consists of two warehouses, one for
Value Logistics (about 13 000 m²) and one for Freightpak
(about 7 000 m²), as well as support facilities such as wash
bay and vehicle inspection, despatch, refuelling, gatehouse
and canopies to many of the structures.