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WEX One
WEX One
Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
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WEX One
Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
The WEX1 project was envisaged as a complimentary scheme to the successful urban regeneration scheme, The Woodstock Exchange. With the intention to further boost regeneration of the Lower Woodstock district, WEX1 is a mixed used building designed to offer over 1000sqm of active ground floor retail alongside a small public leisure retail facility on the 4th floor and more than 200 new apartments.
The scheme is situated directly opposite the Woodstock Exchange along Albert Road with a south facing street frontage and the majority of the new apartments facing due north with breathtaking views across the harbour and Table Bay. The design represents a contemporary and contextual response to the traditional brick warehouse, impressive in scale. On approach from the east toward Cape Town, the development compliments the scale of the Woodstock Exchange. A further reinforcement of the relationship between the two buildings is evident in the careful consideration of new landscaping and paving that ties the Woodstock Exchange with WEX1 strongly at the pedestrian realm. Special attention has been made to promote and encourage the pedestrian experience from the train station along Davison Street with crucial corner retail shopfronts forming an interactive experience.
The architecture draws on the materials and ethos of the surrounding precinct, using the brick, glass, and steel of the rail-side industrial warehouses reformed into a contemporary aesthetic while still aiming to retain a classic, timeless appeal. A fresh design to regenerate this urban precinct, located on a pivotal site with immediate access critical to transport arteries such as the N1; the BRT; Woodstock train station; and of course Albert Road into the city.
The active ground floor shops are fronted with 5m steel and glass shopfronts, allowing public access via 2 entrances into a highly visible yet well protected internal retail street running parallel to Albert Road. This retail is encouraged to trade into the late evening to encourage enhanced activity along Albert Road. Access to the parking facility branches centrally off this vibrant internal street, with the parking housed in 2 full basement levels, and 2 full parking levels above the double volume retail space, with 2 half levels of parking between.
The private apartments are accessed from a further secure lobby in the heart of this internal street. The apartments sit elevated above the traffic with views through to Devils Peak, Table Mountain, the city, and Table Bay becoming more expansive with every level from floors 4 through to 9.
The scheme is situated directly opposite the Woodstock Exchange along Albert Road with a south facing street frontage and the majority of the new apartments facing due north with breathtaking views across the harbour and Table Bay. The design represents a contemporary and contextual response to the traditional brick warehouse, impressive in scale. On approach from the east toward Cape Town, the development compliments the scale of the Woodstock Exchange. A further reinforcement of the relationship between the two buildings is evident in the careful consideration of new landscaping and paving that ties the Woodstock Exchange with WEX1 strongly at the pedestrian realm. Special attention has been made to promote and encourage the pedestrian experience from the train station along Davison Street with crucial corner retail shopfronts forming an interactive experience.
The architecture draws on the materials and ethos of the surrounding precinct, using the brick, glass, and steel of the rail-side industrial warehouses reformed into a contemporary aesthetic while still aiming to retain a classic, timeless appeal. A fresh design to regenerate this urban precinct, located on a pivotal site with immediate access critical to transport arteries such as the N1; the BRT; Woodstock train station; and of course Albert Road into the city.
The active ground floor shops are fronted with 5m steel and glass shopfronts, allowing public access via 2 entrances into a highly visible yet well protected internal retail street running parallel to Albert Road. This retail is encouraged to trade into the late evening to encourage enhanced activity along Albert Road. Access to the parking facility branches centrally off this vibrant internal street, with the parking housed in 2 full basement levels, and 2 full parking levels above the double volume retail space, with 2 half levels of parking between.
The private apartments are accessed from a further secure lobby in the heart of this internal street. The apartments sit elevated above the traffic with views through to Devils Peak, Table Mountain, the city, and Table Bay becoming more expansive with every level from floors 4 through to 9.
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