Foreshore Reclaimed Land Walk

The Castle of Good Hope remains the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, defined by its stark, yellow-ochre pentagonal walls. Built between sixteen sixty-six and sixteen seventy-nine, the fortress replaced an earlier wooden…

The Grand Parade is a vast, open expanse of asphalt stretching out in front of Cape Town City Hall. It began as a simple parade ground for the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century. In nineteen ninety, Nelson Mandela stood on…

The Golden Acre center sits on the site of the old Cape Town railway station. When engineers dug the foundations in the nineteen seventies, they unearthed the remnants of the eighteenth-century Dutch East India Company ramparts. Instead of…

The Paul Sauer Building occupies a sharp corner on Adderley Street, distinguished by its jagged, zig-zagging concrete facade that cuts against the flatter lines of its neighbors. Designed in the nineteen sixties by architect Hannes…

The Cape Town Civic Centre is a massive concrete blockhouse with a stark, brutalist facade that dominates the citys central business district. Its jagged, angled terraces were designed in the late nineteen sixties to house the municipal…

The Cape Town International Convention Centre is marked by a massive, curved glass facade that faces the harbor. Before this building rose in two thousand three, the site consisted of barren railway lands and abandoned industrial docks.…

The Foreshore Freeway Bridge consists of two unfinished concrete roadways that stop abruptly mid-air, overlooking the Cape Town city center. Planners intended these segments to connect the national highway to the harbor in the early…