Tag Archives: Cape Town Foreshore

Quo vadis V&A Waterfront, Foreshore, Culemborg?

31 May 11 0 Comments

I anticipate a good discussion on the future of the Cape Town Central City at the next meeting of our Partner’s Forum on 14 June. There will be inputs by Wayne van der Vent of the PIC’s Real Estate Asset Managers on their future role in Cape Town including the V&A Waterfront and the PIC’s…

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We’re on the road to nowhere…

30 August 10 5 Comments

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Update: There was a good response to my original post on Cape Town’s unfinished freeways. Ella Smook wrote a follow up article in the Cape Argus on 01 September (see full story below), following which John Maytham picked up the debate on Cape Talk radio.

What do you think? Should the Foreshore Freeways be:…

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The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age

07 August 10 5 Comments

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The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to pedestrians.’* Yet on a still winter’s morning, in the early dawn light, on foot, the Foreshore can almost be beautiful.…

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Cape Town Squared (or how some of our most valuable public assets are not being properly used)

20 July 10 5 Comments

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Do you remember the popular zebra artworks dotted around public spaces in Cape Town during the World Cup? Well, they’ve now migrated to the Artscape Piazza on the Foreshore.

The 33 zebras form an exhibition entitled ‘Not all is Black and White’, by the World for All…

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Cape Town Station – on track for 2010, but a lot more still needs to be done

23 May 10 2 Comments

The CT Station has been receiving its first major overhaul since it was built as an apartheid station in the early 1960s. I walked around the site a few days ago with colleagues from Intersite and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to look at the progress that

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For sure, freeways?

28 March 10 12 Comments

A few days ago, Nike and I took our two sons to see the world’s largest ship, the Queen Mary 2, which was docked for 48 hours in the Cape Town Harbour. Courtesy of colleague Mike Evans, we got a great view of the vessel from the Webber Wentzel offices on the 15th floor of the

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