The Castle of Good Hope is marked by a distinctive pentagonal shape and five stone bastions that project outward from its corners. Built by the Dutch East India Company between sixteen sixty-six and sixteen seventy-nine, it stands as the…
Foreshore Reclaimed Land Walk
Trace Cape Town's invisible historic shoreline where the ocean once met the city, and see how massive mid-century reclamation created the modernist Foreshore.
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1. Castle of Good Hope
2. Grand Parade
The Grand Parade is a broad, open square in the center of Cape Town, distinguished by the massive, limestone-faced City Hall that looms over its southern edge. Originally a grassy meadow used as a training ground for the garrison of the…
3. Golden Acre
The Golden Acre is a large shopping complex on the corner of Adderley and Strand Streets, easily recognized by its massive glass-heavy, twenty-eight-story tower that looms over the downtown transit hub. Constructed in nineteen seventy-nine…
4. Paul Sauer Building
The Paul Sauer Building stands on Adderley Street in the central business district of Cape Town. You can identify this high-rise structure by its mid-twentieth-century design, which dates to the nineteen-sixties and marks an era when such…
5. Cape Town Civic Centre
The Cape Town Civic Centre is a high-rise complex that spans over Hertzog Boulevard, featuring a long, narrow twenty-six-story tower that stands ninety-eight meters tall. Completed in nineteen seventy-eight, the building houses the…
6. CTICC (Cape Town International Convention Centre)
The Cape Town International Convention Centre, or CTICC, is defined by its massive glass and stone-clad exterior that spans over six hectares in the Foreshore precinct. Opened in June two thousand and three, this sprawling events complex…
7. Foreshore Freeway Bridge
The Foreshore Freeway Bridge is a pair of elevated concrete highway spans that terminate abruptly in mid-air, looming over the city center. Originally designed in the late nineteen sixties to alleviate future traffic congestion,…