PROJECTS / 140 WEST

140 WEST, SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG

Client: Zenprop Property Holdings | Size: 3600m² | Duration: 2014-2017

140 West Street consists of a 10-storey North Tower and 14-storey South Tower, both rising over a subterranean, multilevel basement structure but tightly seated within a greened podium. It is home to several legal and corporate tenants and achieved a 4-Star Green Star SA Office V1 Design certification.

The strong lines and curves of the building were to formulate the base for the landscape design. With its impressive facades, shaped to create gentle bends in each face and further texturized by vertical metal shading fins, these forms effortlessly inspire the language of the gardens. The built planters rise and fall with gentle curves, with linear patterns reflected in the paving patterns and once again in the extrusions of the outdoor seating.

The building welcomes users and visitors up off the street over a cascading stepped water feature and onto a landscaped ground floor podium. The client wished for the energy that one experiences on the street to be brought through into the building, celebrating strong urban features and scales (lighting, floor finish etc.) but introducing a calm through planting colours and textures.

The ground floor podium hovers over the basement block (parking), presenting a thin cantilevering edge to the street view (West). The planted gardens are designed to cascade over this edge and allow the balustrade and hard surfaces to pull back away from this interface. The ground floor gardens then circumnavigate the building on this level weaving built-up off-shutter concrete planters and paved walkways into the narrow north and south boundaries and opening-up to accommodate a canteen spillout space on the eastern terrace as an extension to, and termination of, the “street” that pulls through from the atrium of the building.

Further up the structure, exclusive landscaped roof terraces have been incorporated on the 8th, 9th and 14th floors. The lines and materials of planters and paved areas replicate those of the ground floor design.

PROJECTS / 140 WEST

140 WEST, SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG

Client: Zenprop Property Holdings | Size: 3600m² | Duration: 2014-2017

140 West Street consists of a 10-storey North Tower and 14-storey South Tower, both rising over a subterranean, multilevel basement structure but tightly seated within a greened podium. It is home to several legal and corporate tenants and achieved a 4-Star Green Star SA Office V1 Design certification.

The strong lines and curves of the building were to formulate the base for the landscape design. With its impressive facades, shaped to create gentle bends in each face and further texturized by vertical metal shading fins, these forms effortlessly inspire the language of the gardens. The built planters rise and fall with gentle curves, with linear patterns reflected in the paving patterns and once again in the extrusions of the outdoor seating.

The building welcomes users and visitors up off the street over a cascading stepped water feature and onto a landscaped ground floor podium. The client wished for the energy that one experiences on the street to be brought through into the building, celebrating strong urban features and scales (lighting, floor finish etc.) but introducing a calm through planting colours and textures.

The ground floor podium hovers over the basement block (parking), presenting a thin cantilevering edge to the street view (West). The planted gardens are designed to cascade over this edge and allow the balustrade and hard surfaces to pull back away from this interface. The ground floor gardens then circumnavigate the building on this level weaving built-up off-shutter concrete planters and paved walkways into the narrow north and south boundaries and opening-up to accommodate a canteen spillout space on the eastern terrace as an extension to, and termination of, the “street” that pulls through from the atrium of the building.

Further up the structure, exclusive landscaped roof terraces have been incorporated on the 8th, 9th and 14th floors. The lines and materials of planters and paved areas replicate those of the ground floor design.

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