Time & Location
02 Jul 2022, 10:00
Sandton, 75 Maude St, Sandown, Sandton, 2031, South Africa
About the event
The Leonardo
The tallest building in Africa, was originally briefed as 4 basements, 5 floors of retail and conferencing with offices and apartments to total anticipated height of 33 storeys. Adaptive flexibility was required to respond to the changing market demands and financial viability throughout construction. The architects adopted processes and designs that were extremely flexible, which permitted the uses to be determined by market demands and whilst the tower was under construction. This required significant flexibility and robustness in the design. Ultimately a complex 57 story building project has been completed in a manner which has far exceeded the originally anticipated commercial expectations. Collaboration with the engineers ensured sufficient capacity and integration to allow construction to proceed at lower levels and floors to be added without impacting the construction programme. The largely column free space, orientation and layout of the plans also provided flexibility.
The external appearance reflects the…