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Date: 1901 Client: C.H. Knight Type: Offices Status: Demolished Street: Adderley Street

(SAWW 1908; Pryce-Lewis list 5 778) Radford 1979:112 ascribes the building to Black and Fagg. According to the City of Cape Town's Heritage Building Plans Register (2013), the plans for the Flat Iron Building were approved in 1901, the applicant being C.H. Knight and the architect G. Ransome. The site was previously occupied by a fish market, and now forms part of the ABSA Towers. Picton-Seymour 1977: 55,68 refers to this as the Thomson Watson 'Flat Iron' Building. References: Howard, AG . n.d.. The Architecture of Cape Town. Cape Town: Unpublished manuscript. pg 181-182,184 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 55, 68, 69 ill., 109 Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 112