PROJECTS / ALICE LANE

ALICE LANE PRECINCT, SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG

Client: Abland | Size: 8250m² | Duration: 2013-2017
Awards: 2018 CMA Aesthetics Excellence Winner in the Paving Category

The Alice Lane Precinct incorporates three individual buildings, phased in construction and connected over a single super-basement. All three buildings spill out onto the common Piazza Level, designed and landscaped to serve as a seamless integration of the separate phases.

This piazza space not only acts to glue the development as one but opens it out to the street, affording users and tenants the freedom to move easily offices, shops, services and surrounds.

As an urban piazza space, much of the installation is hardscape with attention paid to bold floor patterns, robust seating, strategically-placed raised planters and durable street furniture. The overall design concept draws strongly on the flow of movement through the piazza, allowing the finishes to interpret the flow and draw of traffic inwards. The resulting strategy combines a fluidity that melts between the buildings with interjections of sharper directional accents. Steps and ramps subtly transfer the user off the street and between the buildings with little known of the hidden complexities that tie each structure to the other.

Notably, the prominent corner of Alice Lane and 5th Avenue was selected as a suitable location for the striking Synapse sculpture by Marco Cianfanelli and the landscape was gently moulded to accommodate its mass. The developer invested in a further art installation, that of Lorenzo Nassimbeni whom created a colourful tiled collage for the staircase off 5th Avenue.

PROJECTS / ALICE LANE

ALICE LANE PRECINCT, SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG

Client: Abland | Size: 8250m² | Duration: 2013-2017
Awards: 2018 CMA Aesthetics Excellence Winner in the Paving Category

The Alice Lane Precinct incorporates three individual buildings, phased in construction and connected over a single super-basement. All three buildings spill out onto the common Piazza Level, designed and landscaped to serve as a seamless integration of the separate phases.

This piazza space not only acts to glue the development as one but opens it out to the street, affording users and tenants the freedom to move easily offices, shops, services and surrounds.

As an urban piazza space, much of the installation is hardscape with attention paid to bold floor patterns, robust seating, strategically-placed raised planters and durable street furniture. The overall design concept draws strongly on the flow of movement through the piazza, allowing the finishes to interpret the flow and draw of traffic inwards. The resulting strategy combines a fluidity that melts between the buildings with interjections of sharper directional accents. Steps and ramps subtly transfer the user off the street and between the buildings with little known of the hidden complexities that tie each structure to the other.

Notably, the prominent corner of Alice Lane and 5th Avenue was selected as a suitable location for the striking Synapse sculpture by Marco Cianfanelli and the landscape was gently moulded to accommodate its mass. The developer invested in a further art installation, that of Lorenzo Nassimbeni whom created a colourful tiled collage for the staircase off 5th Avenue.