MoDILA - the Museum of Design, Innovation, Leadership and Art - is the brainchild of Mokena Makeka, who has become a prominent Capetonian architect. He is perhaps best known for his firm's (Makeka Design Lab) work on the redeveloped Cape Town Station and the winning design behind the new Cape Town International Convention Centre expansion. [...]

Within 6 to 8 weeks, construction could begin on a new hospital that will be operated by NetCare - the Chris Barnard Hospital Complex. The new hospital - designed by Dennis Fabian Berman architects - will be located on the foreshore of the Cape Town central business district. It will be built on a site [...]

Media Quarters - or 47 Somerset Road - is a commercial property currently in the midst of a major redevelopment that will completely change the face of a key block in the suburb of Green Point, Cape Town. The property - which was arguably one of Green Point's last remaining eyesores up until now - will [...]

Galetti has compiled a list of interesting new commercial property developments planned, proposed, under construction or cancelled for the city of Cape Town. 1)    Portside. 32 storeys. Designed by DHK Architects, with Louis Karol Architects acting as assistant architects. Currently under construction, but still undergoing design. Final design elements have yet to be decided, but [...]

Construction at the site of Cape Town's newest skyscraper development is now well under way. At a total of 32 floors, Portside will become the city's tallest tower upon completion. It will host the consolidated provincial offices of FNB, whilst an additional 25 000 sqm of office space will be put to market for lease. Architects [...]

Sandown Centre is centrally located on Sandown Road, Parklands, Cape Town, in between the new Checkers Hypermarket development and the existing Builders Warehouse. It is about 200 metres down the road from the new Parklands College Senior Campus facility. The development comprises of two sites: SITE 1: consists of 12 500sqm of retail, anchored by [...]

The redevelopment of DeVille Shopping Centre in Durbanville, Cape Town, and the addition of more retail space is complete. The Centre now plays host to a number of new stores, as well as increased parking space and office space. On offer from Galetti is office space in this central and convenient Durbanville property. Contact Gareth [...]

  Cape Town’s first post-Apartheid commercial property skyscraper – ‘Portside II’ – finally looks set to get the go-ahead. Announced in 2008, and originally designed by the renowned Louis Karol Architects (LKA), ‘Portside’ was due to commence construction in 2009 and be completed this year. Unfortunately, due to the recession and the slump in the commercial [...]

“The Boulevard is a unique office space development providing 38 000 sqm of prestigious offices on the periphery of the Cape Town CBD. Fronting onto Nelson Mandela Boulevard (previously Eastern Boulevard) with direct access from Searle Street, this landmark development has excellent access and egress, visibility and image to meet the office requirements of office [...]

Well, it seems a lot of us have been taken by surprise, if you could say that, with regards to the new outdoor signage By-Law in Cape Town. We have received about 20 notices from The City of Cape Town in the last 3 months to have TO LET signs removed. The truth is that the [...]