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Old Mutual Central Campus / Perry + Anderson Architecture

Architects: Perry + Anderson Architecture
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Project Team: Perry + Anderson Architecture / Glen Loudon Architect Project Team: Stuart Anderson, Victoria Perry, Anthony Stricker, Glen Loudon, Mfusi Ngayi, Mahlubodwa Noah, Sivuyile Mcilongo
Interior Décor: Perry + Anderson Architecture / Glen Loudon Architect
Project Year: 2008
Photographer: Perry + Anderson Architecture

Area: 2230.0 sqm

- 05 December 2017
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This project was to create a new business school for the Old Mutual Investment Group. Careful consideration of the existing campus of buildings at the head office of Old Mutual in Cape Town saw the positioning of the new training facility in an underutilized courtyard and existing ground floor office space.

The new portion of the building fits into its site and adjacent buildings much like a Tetris block as it had to connect to existing floor levels and circulation routes. We had some fun off setting a rather rigid grid (and subsequently simple box shaped building) with gentle yet defining curved walls to the training rooms and a sculptural curved concrete staircase.

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