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Southern Sun Cape Sun

23 Strand Street
Cape Town South Africa
https://www.tsogosun.com/south...

Status:
built
Construction Dates
  Began1980
  Finished1982
Floor Count32
Units / Rooms368
Building Uses
 - hotel
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Roof345 ftBuilding Management
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Description
Architect: Louis Karol Architects

- The building is connected by an underground shopping mall to Golden Acre, Picbell Parkade and the Cape Town railway station.

- The underlying rock was very expensive to excavate because it was very hard. Over 60 000 cubic metres of rock was excavated from the site. There was a controversy about this development taking up important parking space in the Central Buisness District .

- This building was completed 4 weeks ahead of schedule, taking only 35 months to be built.

- The glass elevator shaft is covered by 3,700 square metres of glass which weighs 68 700 kg.


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