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Namaqua House
Central Cape Town, Western Cape
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Click to view map Coordinates: | Cumming-George 1933 NAMAQUA HOUSE, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, conveys an impression of dignity and repose, due to good handling of broad surfaces and carefully studied contrasts. In the design the architects have striven, both in mass and detail, to create a building which, while lacking nothing in refinement, and refraining from any hint of bizarre, represents a pleasing and essentially modern structure eight storeys in height. The building is constructed with a reinforced concrete skeleton with brick filling. All external joinery is in teak. The ground floor is divided into four large shops which are protected by a cantilevered balcony of unusual design. The ground and first floor windows are treated with a massive architrave to lift the apparent weight of the superimposed load off the plate-glass windows. A study of the interior of the building provides that the all-important factor - the tenants' convenience — has been kept well in mind. In each office electric light, power and gas supplies are installed, and the drainage has been so arranged that should any tenant desire a wash-hand basin it would only be a matter of hours before one is connected to the outlet already provided in each office. (SAB Aug 1930:35)All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Namaqua House
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