Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.

Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon

Flats Dr AH Gool - Project only Cape Town, Western Cape Max POLICANSKY: Architect

Date: 1937 Type: Flats Status: Proposed

(SAB Apr 1938:71) LOCATION: Buitencingel Street, Cape Town. Periphery of CBD. Residential development for Dr. A. H. Gool. (Project only) A north-east-facing site with a limited frontage. Designed as 2 blocks of flats (apartments) with connecting courtyard. The first block contains a number of bachelor flats with the provision of a communal space at ground level. A pedestrian scheme related to city and mass transit systems; no motor car provision is provided for. The second block consists primarily of 2-roomed accommodation. Roof is developed as solarium space. The development was an investment proposal. (Righini 1977:50) 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 Flats Dr AH Gool - Project only Righini, Paul. 1977. The work of Max Policansky. isilili sam sise africa : a journal of architecture and human settlements - University of Cape Town in Volume 1, Number 1. pp 50-51