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Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa
Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa
Century Place Boulevard, Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa
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Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa
Century Place Boulevard, Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa
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2010
The brief for Crystal Towers was founded on the need for a fresh mixed use precinct, to ensure continuous activity. The concept is a direct response to this idea of a building that operates 24/7, exuding a constant life, energy and glow and is made up of three buildings comprising a 180 key 5 star business hotel, 90 luxury residences, and A- grade commercial office space.
The site occupies a strategic position within context of Century City, and this development is seen to play a new pivotal role, an iconic landmark building that would integrate, influence and generate future planning.
The built form has been spread over the site to form the impression of a collection of buildings –with a common idea but distinctive identities – the hotel, apartments and office building forming a pedestrian precinct within the urban context. The formal concept for the hotel and apartment design is of two towers sharing an integrated, dynamic and permeable base of public activity, with a cantilevered suspended pool box in between. The focus of this base is an internal pedestrian street, conceived encourage a social hub of activity, comprising restaurants coffee shop, hotel reception and bars.
The concept of the two towers allows the function to be clearly expressed. The hotel tower is fully double glazed with a curtain wall façade, backlit with LED lighting to reflect a slick contemporary experience while maximizing the dramatic elevated views of Table Mountain and Table Bay. The residences have a more sculpted facade that steps in and out to form weather protected balconies. These two facade treatments are controlled and contained within two equally sized projecting aluminium frames that give the building an overall symmetry. The freestanding office building reinforces this idea of contained, clean façade design.
The linear, rational planning of the building is offset by random nature of the detail elements such as tiling patterns and ceiling and lighting articulation. Random/ haphazard meets linear and ordered.
Similarly a key thread has been the juxtaposition of materials, utilizing a bold palette of carefully designed aluminium cladding and glass facades, off shutter concrete and glass/stainless steel, natural stone cladding and timber to enhance landscaping elements.
Century City as a place has developed from an artificial style, unrelated to time or context, and presented various design challenges and complexities. Crystal Towers endeavours to re-invent and challenge the established precedent within this newly constructed environment.
The site occupies a strategic position within context of Century City, and this development is seen to play a new pivotal role, an iconic landmark building that would integrate, influence and generate future planning.
The built form has been spread over the site to form the impression of a collection of buildings –with a common idea but distinctive identities – the hotel, apartments and office building forming a pedestrian precinct within the urban context. The formal concept for the hotel and apartment design is of two towers sharing an integrated, dynamic and permeable base of public activity, with a cantilevered suspended pool box in between. The focus of this base is an internal pedestrian street, conceived encourage a social hub of activity, comprising restaurants coffee shop, hotel reception and bars.
The concept of the two towers allows the function to be clearly expressed. The hotel tower is fully double glazed with a curtain wall façade, backlit with LED lighting to reflect a slick contemporary experience while maximizing the dramatic elevated views of Table Mountain and Table Bay. The residences have a more sculpted facade that steps in and out to form weather protected balconies. These two facade treatments are controlled and contained within two equally sized projecting aluminium frames that give the building an overall symmetry. The freestanding office building reinforces this idea of contained, clean façade design.
The linear, rational planning of the building is offset by random nature of the detail elements such as tiling patterns and ceiling and lighting articulation. Random/ haphazard meets linear and ordered.
Similarly a key thread has been the juxtaposition of materials, utilizing a bold palette of carefully designed aluminium cladding and glass facades, off shutter concrete and glass/stainless steel, natural stone cladding and timber to enhance landscaping elements.
Century City as a place has developed from an artificial style, unrelated to time or context, and presented various design challenges and complexities. Crystal Towers endeavours to re-invent and challenge the established precedent within this newly constructed environment.
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