INHOUSE Design Studio

Project: Speakers’ Corner

Date: 2018

Location: Cape Town

Type: Commercial

Located on Church Square with its vibrant coffee shops, restaurants and new public space in the East City of Cape Town’s CBD, Speakers’ Corner is one of the city’s oldest buildings and forms part of the heart around which Cape Town was built. It has recently been sensitively restored by Urban Lime to offer businesses a unique creative office space, layered with history reflected in its design.

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Speakers’ Corner

Speakers’ Corner

On entry, visitors are greeted by a vast reception space with a friendly concierge, the scent of freshly-baked pastries wafting over from Victoire Patisserie and stunning art on display from Gallery Momo. The building features four other floors with an array of offices of varying sizes (ranging from 50m² to 2000m²) with different views of the city. The interior spaces – designed by Inhouse and Robert Sherwood Design in conjunction with the Urban Lime design team and James Milborrow Projects – include features such as original timber floors, exposed brick walls, fireplaces and large windows or balconies. “Every effort has been made to not only preserve the building’s past, with its original architectural elements retained and restored, but to also preserve its unique energy,” says Urban Lime founder and CEO Jonny Friedman.

Contact

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Designed By Inhouse

address: The Point, 3rd Floor, Suite 301, 76 Regent Road, Sea Point

email: lameez@inhouse.ws
tel: +27 21 488 2400