Sable Park is a commercial development we designed for Rabie Property Group in Century City, Cape Town, in 2018. Located at the southern edge of the thriving Bridgeways Precinct, it’s one of several dhk-designed buildings in the area. Our client Rabie Property Group needed a viable building that would sit at a prominent entry point into Century City, Cape Town, forming a recognisable front face for the suburb.
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The development’s composition was inspired by shuffling multiple forms that operate independently while relating to their immediate context. The development was intentionally designed to appear as a single large complex and simultaneously as four small independent volumes depending on where it is viewed from. The four volumes are further broken down into thirds, a double height layered mass and a single height crystalline cube. Each of these thirds shift and jump on the horizontal and vertical plain to achieve maximum views and optimal orientation. A large part of the buildings’ concept was manifested in its structure, creating distinct floating boxes that veer off and cantilever beyond one another.
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Internally, the buildings have two wings with a central core and full height atrium bringing light into the centre of the expansive floor plates. The wings are connected by a series of bridges spanning across the atrium at the edge of the main core. The core is a stand-alone element which is exposed on both sides of the building. From the rear, this concrete cube protrudes and is visible from over a kilometre away. It forms the proverbial ‘heart’ of the building, circulating people left to right, up and down and into different chambers int he building.
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Each building encloses a landscaped courtyard, bringing nature into the very fabric of the structures and provides outdoor breakaway places for staff. On the upper levels, a wrap-around terrace takes advantage of the buildings’ prime position, providing additional outdoor spaces for the offices located on this level. Sable Park is one of several buildings we’ve designed in Century City. Also located in the precinct is Bridge Park, a twin development with over 18 000 sqm of premium grade office space, and Axis, a development with 85 luxury residential apartments and penthouses, supplemented with small-scale commercial and retail space at ground level.

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Dave Southwood + Wieland Glleich - Photographers