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Quay 7 Hotel: The Gridded House
Quay 7 Hotel: The Gridded House
Cape Town, South Africa
Finalist, 2026 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
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Quay 7 Hotel: The Gridded House
Cape Town, South Africa
Finalist, 2026 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
Neri&Hu was given the challenge of designing a new 143-key luxury hotel that offers majestic views of both sea and mountain, while appreciating the citys maritime heritage. Quay 7, located on the northern edge of the Victoria Basin harbour, was an active fishing wharf up until recent years. The nearly 200m long and narrow project site offers both advantages and challenges to work with. Nestled on the cusp between Granger Bay and Victoria Basin, Quay 7 the hotel itself must become a transitional node to bridge the natural barrier formed by the historic breakwater wall running alongside it. The resulting design scheme features a long extruded pitched form which echoes the linearity of other buildings along the harbour. The sloped form begins to incline at the third floor, visually reducing its height and its imposition on the street and harbour edges. The primary architectural expression is its exposed concrete structural grid. Along with an infill of locally made clay bricks, the building celebrates an authentic tectonic expression with humble materials found in many purpose-built structures of the waterfront precinct. One of the buildings highlights is the drum-like element that breaks the rhythmic structural grid at around one-quarter of the buildings length. This part of the building is designated as fully public with a path that is open to all visitors, not only hotel guests, and leads up to a 360-degree viewing platform at the top, with unparalleled views of sea and mountain, city and nature. The Quay 7 Hotel offers a unique hotel experience that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, by highlighting its magnificent natural surroundings and paying homage to the maritime industrial heritage of historic V&A Waterfront.
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