Public spaces within and outside the Central City.

Here are some from the Central City:


Greenmarket Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/greenmarket-square-300/) – Turning 300 years in 2010
The Grand Parade (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/the-grand-parade/) – South Africa’s oldest public square
Pier Place (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/pier-place/) – Engaging with lifelike statues
Jetty Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/jetty-square/) – Ghostly sharks
St George’s Mall (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/st-georges-mall/) – Pedestrianising public space
Church Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/church-square/) – Slavery remembered
Heerengracht (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/heerengracht/) – ”The gentlemen’s walk”
Thibault Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/thibault-square/) – Lunch time meeting place
Heritage Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/heritage-square/) – Architectural memories
St Andrew’s Square (http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/st-andrews-square/) – Exhibiting a piece of history

Greenmarket Square – Turning 300 years in 2010



Greenmarket Square – Turning 300 years in 2010


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Greenmarket-6-1-511x342.jpg Greenmarket Square was created as a marketplace for slaves and later, as the name attests, for fruit and vegetables. Its surrounding architecture is all of historical relevance: from the old Town Hall building (now an art gallery) to the Methodist Church to the fine examples of art-deco architecture. Currently the square is undergoing refurbishment at a cost of R4 million to be completed in time to celebrate the square’s 300th birthday next year. The existing granite cobblestones are being removed and cleaned while new cobblestones are being brought in to pedestrianise the entire area around the square. The cobblestones will be raised to the level of the surrounding pavements, mast lights are to be installed in each of the square’s corners and a permanent stage is being constructed above the newly refurbished public toilets.




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The Grand Parade – oldest public square



The Grand Parade – oldest public square


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Parade-4--511x342.jpg When great events in this city’s history have unfurled, the Grand Parade has always provided the stage for the public’s participation and reaction to these historical moments. Originally known as “Wapen Plein” (Square of Arms) and the site of Jan van Riebeck’s original fort in the 1650’s, the Parade has always been closely associated with its immediate neighbour, the Castle. While its significance in the public life of Capetonians has dwindled in recent years, it was for centuries the public face of Cape Town’s spirit : a place where citizens gathered to celebrate, protest or seek refuge. It was here too that crowds gathered to hear Nelson Mandela address the world upon his release from prison in 1990.
Today the City of Cape Town is determined to put the Grand Parade back at the heart of city life with a major upgrade of the space and by changing the role it plays in the lives of Capetonians from car park to gathering place and trading centre. During the 2010 World Cup, the Parade will become a fan park for football fans to follow the matches on giant screens. Phase one of the refurbishment will be completed before 2010: the entire area has been re-surfaced with paving stones that match the colour of City Hall, a double row of stone pines planted around the perimeter and lighting masts and up-lighters have already been installed. Phase 2 of the refurbishment, which includes an improved dedicated trading area, will begin once funds have been raised through a public-private partnership.




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Pier Place – Engaging with lifelike statues



Pier Place – Engaging with lifelike statues


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Pier-Place-2--511x342.jpg A public square in the Foreshore, that is probably best known for its collection of life size and lifelike statues of people under a canopy of trees, engaged in everyday activities from reading the newspaper to chatting on a cell phone. The square was refurbished at a cost of R2 million in 2007 when it was re-surfaced and stylish new benches installed. With the emergence of new hotels and restaurants located nearby and the square’s proximity to the Convention Centre, this area of the Foreshore and Pier Place in particular, has seen a new lease of life.


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Jetty Square – Ghostly sharks

Jetty Square – Ghostly sharks
http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Jetty-Square-511x383.jpg Around the corner from Pier Place is Jetty Square, a small public space surrounded by hotels and restaurants. Popular restaurant Bizerka and next door’s Urban Hip Hotel have made the square a fashionable spot to be based while attending the nearby Convention Centre. The square is notable for artist Ralph Borland’s iconic ghost shark sculptures, whose infra-red sensors pick up the movements of passing pedestrians below them and swivel in the direction of that movement. For business travelers staying in the Foreshore, Jetty Square is a quiet, shady space to escape from the noise of the busier thoroughfares that surround it.


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St George’s Mall – Pedestrianising public space



St George’s Mall – Pedestrianising public space


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/St-Georges-Mall-2--511x383.jpg According to the City of Cape Town ‘s “State of Cape Town Report 2006”, city–wide only 7% of journeys in Cape Town are made on foot. St Georges Mall was pedestrianised in 1992, ensuring that those who live in or close to the city centre are guaranteed a short walk to work down St Georges Mall, one of the city’s main arteries that is both pedestrian-friendly and lined with coffee shops and trees. In contrast, Copenhagen’s main thoroughfare, Stroget, was pedestrianised in 1962 and parking spaces in the centre of Copenhagen have been gradually cut back to create either complete or partial car-free spaces.


St George’s Mall has been through a number of name changes in its long history, but initially was considered a vital link between the Company Gardens and the sea by the Dutch settlers. Before becoming a commercial centre in the early eighteenth century, the street was considered the most desirable street in the colony to live on. The foundation stone of St George’s Church was laid in 1830 and from then on, the street was renamed St George’s Street.




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Church Square – Slavery remembered



Church Square – Slavery remembered


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Ch-Sq-Nov-2006-9-511x383.jpg From its original design as a square designed to serve the Groote Kerk, Church Square has been reclaimed from its more recent function as a car park to become an attractive open space close to parliament. Coffee shops and cafes are scattered around the square making it a pleasant place to stop for lunch. The square was re-paved, trees introduced and a memorial to the square’s origins as a slave market was unveiled in 2008. Eleven granite blocks give passers-by an indication of the names of some of the slaves traded in the square. Opposite the square on Spin Street is the slave tree memorial, commemorating the spot where slaves were auctioned and where they were forced to wait while their masters attended the Groote Kerk on the square. The original fir tree was removed in 1916. A few years later a statue of the Afrikaner politician, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer, was erected on the square in recognition of his efforts to have the Dutch language recognized along with English in the Constitution of 1910.




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Heerengracht – The gentlemen’s walk



Heerengracht – The gentlemen’s walk


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Heerengracht-1--511x342.jpg Heerengracht (“Gentlemen’s Walk”) was the name given to the road that became Adderley Street in 1850 and is South Africa’s oldest thoroughfare: it linked the Grand Parade to the Company Gardens (which extended further into Adderley Street than at present). When the Foreshore was reclaimed in 1938, a new boulevard that extended from the end of Adderley Street to the sea was re-named Heerengracht. Today Heerengracht is a boulevard with wide lanes lined with palm trees and water flowing down the road’s centre. As a spot to linger, it can be hard to beat – sitting in the shade alongside the flowing water with a direct view up the boulevard to Table Mountain.


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Thibault Square – Lunch time meeting place



Thibault Square – Lunch time meeting place


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Thibault-Sq-1--511x342.jpg Located at the very end of St Georges Mall, Thibault Square is where the employees from the surrounding offices come to eat lunch, meet friends and get some fresh air. Coffee shops and sandwich shops surround the square, which sits in the shadow of some of the tallest and imposing high rises in town. A favourite spot to people-watch, there is an endless flow of pedestrian traffic criss-crossing the square and has the feel of the definitive downtown public square.


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Heritage Square – Architectural memories



Heritage Square – Architectural memories


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-Heritage-4--511x342.jpg For a glimpse into the architectural style of Cape Town two hundred years ago, Heritage Square serves as a reminder of the city’s architectural past. The restoration project of the buildings that surround the square are as a result of a campaign by residents, journalists, historians and the Cape Town Heritage Trust to prevent the buildings from being demolished and the site from being turned into a parking garage in the 1980’s.The restored town houses are now home to various restaurants, a hotel, offices and shops although the square itself is used as a car park.


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St Andrew’s Square – Exhibiting a piece of history



St Andrew’s Square – Exhibiting a piece of history


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Suter-St-Andrews--511x342.jpg St Andrews Square on Somerset Road had been intended to become a new urban public space, on the site of the forecourt of St Andrews Church. But when the skeletons of hundreds of what are believed to have been slaves were unearthed during construction of new building works in Green Point, it was decided that the St Andrews site would become the site for the re-internment of the bones of the slaves. The ossuary was blessed at an interfaith ceremony in April 2008 and today those who walk between the CBD and Green Point (where tramlines once ran to Sea Point) can visit the ossuary, a memorial garden and a permanent exhibition.

Another pic of The gentlemen’s walk:

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This in front of the Civic centre:

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Quality Public Spaces for Communities
The re-conceptualisation of 2010 as an urban renewal initiative

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The infrastructural benefits associated with the 2010 FIFA World Cup are deemed to be one of the tangible, long-term outcomes and legacies of hosting this mega event. For the City of Cape Town's urban designers and spatial planners, creating public space for public life has been foremost on the agenda. It is this legacy that is fundamental to the life of the city beyond 2010.

"The quality public space projects are the ones that stand out for me because of the difference we are making in communities."

Brendon Abrahams runs his own firm of consulting engineers - BACE Consulting Engineers, and is one of a core of professionals including urban planners and designers, landscape architects, and civil engineers contributing to urban renewal projects around the Cape Town metropolitan.

The Quality Public Space projects as we know them today were conceived on the back of 2010 planning by the City's Executive Directorate and Management Team. One of its main champions was former Executive Director of Strategy and Development at the City of Cape Town, Steve Boshoff.

2010 Legacy


For Boshoff the big question was how to combine the infrastructure development around 2010, the location of public space and accelerated delivery of the dignified places programme? In other words, his main concern was whether the injection of investment for 2010 could simultaneously become an urban renewal initiative for Cape Town?

Boshoff's vision was buoyed by the experiences and lessons of Germany, hosts to the World Cup Soccer event in 2006, which had shown how important non-stadium and fringe events were to communities.

The idea of linking communities and public spaces in a city that had been left with a legacy of spatial and social separation was significant. Pre-1930s planning had ensured that parts of the city, the predominantly affluent areas, were well served by public transport facilities whilst the majority of Cape Town's citizens, located in low-income neighbourhoods on the Cape Flats and surrounds, had to spend excessive time and money traveling to places of work and opportunity.

The City of Cape Town's Manager of Urban Planning, Cedric Daniels says, "We were concerned about the idea of a legacy post 2010. Whilst the initial vision of public spaces did garner support early on it soon became clear that the scale proposed for 70 to 80 public spaces distributed throughout the city and linked through safe public transport systems could not be achieved because of limited resource capacity."

"But whilst we couldn't operationalise community viewing spaces, we had already engaged with sub councils and were adamant that quality public spaces go ahead on a smaller scale. We had now registered the claim of public space as an important issue on the agenda."

Quality & Dignified Public Spaces

So the quality public space and dignified public space programmes had the same motive – urban renewal and the provision of opportunities for people to congregate - to enable economic activities and create a sense of place.

In its 2006 Draft Document on the long-term spatial development of Cape Town, the City's Urban Design and Spatial Planning department set out their vision for the Dignified Places Programme:

"Many opportunities exist for new viewpoints, promenades and walkways, and squares and boulevards across the city which would contribute towards the development of a world-class city as well as significantly improve the quality of life attractions for different communities across the city. This includes the development of quality public spaces at high accessibility points, such as transport interchanges, or where community facilities are clustered, as well as the linear street connections between them. The development of these new special urban public places, if done in an integrated and co-ordinated manner, can also lead to the creation of a city-wide network of quality urban spaces."

So the main purpose of the Dignified Places Programme was to achieve high quality public spaces, or "urban living rooms" which would communicate a sense of permanence. To facilitate this, the budgets of many relevant functions would need to be combined to create integrated projects that would achieve far more than the sum of a number of independent initiatives and to direct other sectors, such as housing and transport to reinforce these catalytic places.
Quality Public Spaces | BACE Consulting Engineers


Nyanga Project

The upgrade of the public space in Nyanga is an example of the synthesis between the dignified place and quality public space programmes. The development strategy for the site were coupled to an earlier dignified public places project and comprised 4 components:

1. The development of a public square at the entrance to the sports complex on Zwelitsha Drive and continuation of the public space upgrade along Zwelitsha Drive to tie in with the existing public space upgrade and in keeping with the Nyanga Spatial Development Framework;
2. The Upgrade of the play park between the sports complex and Zolani Centre and building of steps and platforms to integrate the park with the public facilities, the sports complex and Great Dutch Street, thus integrating with the proposed Nyanga Indoor Sports Facility.
3. The development of the roadway between the two entrances to the sports complex as a treed avenue for walking and relaxing in a green environment as a relief from the intense and vibrant urban environment outside the sports complex.
4. A public space upgrade that connects the Ntlangano Trading Stalls Upgrade to the Great Dutch Street Upgrade.

Reflecting on his experience of working on the Nyanga project, Brendon Abrahams says: "One of the joys in completing the Nyanga site (referring to the play park) was to see how the site developed from nothing to a place that is enjoyed by so many kids playing on the new equipment and enjoying the space and what it offers."

"When we first started on the site, it was very uneven and littered and had been used for the slaughtering of animals. The kickabout area was a challenge as an existing mound of rubble and sand was on the one side of the area. We calculated the quantity of sand and rubble to be removed off site and discovered that it would be too costly to remove all the material. The access rubble was removed and the mound was constructed as an informal grassed stand to view children playing on the kick about area."

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The Gugulethu 7 Memorial

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was erected to commemorate the slaying of 7 youths by the police during the 1980's. Our role was to create a space that would hold the memorial sculpture. The site is situated on a busy corner on NY1 in Gugulethu, Cape Town where the incident took place. The Memorial was placed directly on the pavement for maximum exposure while an intimate amphitheater was created behind the sculpture. The Cut-outs in the memorial structure project onto the road surface in a play of sunlight and shadow that bring the figures of resistance to life.




The Trojan Horse Memorial


is located in Athlone in Cape Town. We were appointed to design a public space that could house the memorial. Previously, trucks and cars frequenting the famous fish and chips cafe used the small square as a parking area thereby destroying all its value as a public place. We created parking on the verges and placed sturdy bollards on the square to dissuade this practice. The bollards were designed to also act as seating.

Populous simonii were planted on the square in a formal grid to help hold the space while a single large Ficus natalensis in the centre will provide shade for the whole square. By then the relatively short lived poplars would have died off. It was constructed with a budget of R600,000.



Other Memorial Projects completed:

Lwandle Public Space and Migrant Labour Museum (2003)

Robben Island Medicinal and Art garden at Prison C (2005)


Hanover Park CBD


Hanover Park is situated on the edge of the so-called “Cape Flats” which lies to the east of Cape Town. Climatically it is a harsh landscape that has not traditionally been an ideal place for human habitation. However in the time of Apartheid people were relocated here from other areas in Cape Town. The wind howls through the empty squares from the south-east in summer and in winter there is little place to hide from the cold and wet North-Wester. Save for a few Eucalyptus trees there were no existing trees in the CBD. We were appointed to draw up a masterplan, based on the Urban Design Concept for the CBD.


Our concept was to create a central square that people could use for social and political public gatherings. The large concrete parking area where traders mingled taxis parked and trucks offloaded goods were converted into the square. A stage was used to help divide the square between the commercial and public/pedestrian place with trees to accentuate it. We strengthened two linkages between Hannover Park Drive and the CBD through the use of paving, bollards and trees. We removed any unnecessary level changes to aid pedestrian movement. The plan included a Skateboard Park, which will hopefully be implemented in future when management structures are in place to maintain it.


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Swartklip Sports Complex: Regional Sports Facility overall development master plan, sketch plan and tender documentation for tree planting and irrigation.


Seawinds/Capricorn and Lavender Hill: Master plan for the development of future sports facilities including an assessment of existing facilities and budget required for future developments



Turfhall sports complex: Master plan for the development of Turfhall softball stadium for the 2010 Softball World Cup. Landscape Masterplan. Construction starts April 2010


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Infecting the City



Infecting the City


http://capetownpartnership.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Image-Shaen-Adey-5906.JPG Infecting the City’s Quiet Emergency had Capetonians and visitors wondering, when professional artists joined forces with some of the city’s marginalized people – including street children, sex workers, security guards and street cleaners – in Thibault Square. The Quiet Emergency performance was an experiment in bringing trained and untrained people into a public and uncontrollable space. The interactions unfolded organically as the performers moved around the square, and made for fascinating watching.
Infecting the City is a public arts festival that stages and exhibits thought-provoking and boundary-breaking works in the city of Cape Town’s communal spaces.
This year’s theme for Infecting the City, the third festival of its kind, was Human Rite.
The streets and public spaces of Cape Town came alive as talented creative artists from around the world performed collaborative pieces, put up art installations and did public interventions that “grapple with the knots, scars and wounds of the Cape Town CBD.”
The Wishing Wall was a collective Cape Town artwork made up of a collage of wishes, reflections, opinions, photos, keepsakes and other titbits from the people of Cape Town.
The aim was to create a space for connecting, healing, venting, expressing, enacting, feeling and interacting, and it gave immediate access to the collective thoughts, desires aspirations and needs of Cape Town.
A large lunchtime crowd gathered every day on Church Square for the collaborative work, Meet Market,, where a placard told people how, on the surface, all is manicured and green, but underneath the surface lie many truths.
Infecting the City attracted more people this year than ever before – and by all accounts it will be as powerful and well-supported next year.

Great thread! Thanks.

Its kinda wierd how there is a giant red "man" outsided the cticc and the civic center

I wish we had more weird things which were freaky..asked questions..etc.

Like the giant mirror Bean in chicago.

We have all these "creatives" in Cape Town, but very few of them actually do anything.

All they do all day is talk about how creative they are and stick to their inner circle of "Creatives", never actually activating any public space.

What's the story behind the Bart Simpson statue on St George's Mall? Now that's weird.

that bridge by the waterfront entrance is really starting to take shape. its still pretty fucking retarded that its only over one side.

I wish we had more weird things which were freaky..asked questions..etc.

Like the giant mirror Bean in chicago.

We have all these "creatives" in Cape Town, but very few of them actually do anything.

All they do all day is talk about how creative they are and stick to their inner circle of "Creatives", never actually activating any public space.

The problem is all the graffiti artists of the 90s and early 2000s are now graphic designers. They've gone corporate.

The problem is all the graffiti artists of the 90s and early 2000s are now graphic designers. They've gone corporate.

Or in jail or on drugs or in rehab

The problem is all the graffiti artists of the 90s and early 2000s are now graphic designers. They've gone corporate.

then they were never grafitti artist in the first place.

Walked to Thibault Square at lunch time today. It’s the first time I’ve been there since I got back from the UK in September. Looks awesome!

Walked around station on Saturday. Almost got robbed.

^^ The issues with the station are starting to piss me off! The CoCT and the CTP should send a "hit squad" down to that area. :(

The station precint has always been dodge. I am not certain how they will fix the problem. It is a bit of loiter central. I was surrounded by 5 guys there a fews years back wanting my cell at 9 in the morning nogal. Problem was I also had a laptop with my thesis on it(No back-up), a large sum of cash. Lucky for me they were startled by a passer-by and ran away.

Don't mind giving up my cell etc, but damn I would never have been able to write my thesis again from scratch.

I don't think security at the station is that bad.
I've walked alone at and around the station many times on different days and times and have never been in such a situation where I was almost robbed. Things at CTS have improved in a BIG way in terms of management and security. We can only hope that it continues to improve post WC.
CTS is nowhere near as dodge as before.
Construction workers just need to add a dash of speed. Perhaps someone should stand with a whip

^^ About seven years ago I got my first job after high school. The company I worked for was just off Victoria Road, Woodstock. On my first day I thought it would be safer to get the train home from Cape Town instead of dodgy Woodstock and lo and behold I was accosted by a group of homeless kids who quite literally lifted me in the air and stole my shoes right in front of a security guard. So yeah, it’s a dodgy area.

Its still very much dodgy. The interior is safer, but the surrounds are as dodgy as ever.

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On Granger Bay Boulevard the open unused grass patch, I would add a covered market area.

New Market in Celje / Arhitektura Krušec


21
May 2010

By Nico Saieh (http://www.archdaily.com/author/nicosaieh/) — Filed under: Public Facilities (http://www.archdaily.com/category/public-facilities/) , Selected (http://www.archdaily.com/category/selected/) , Arhitektura Krusec (http://www.archdaily.com/tag/arhitektura-krusec/), Slovenia (http://www.archdaily.com/tag/slovenia/), Steel (http://www.archdaily.com/tag/steel/)

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Architects: Arhitektura Krušec (http://www.arhitekturakrusec.si/)
Location: Celje, Slovenia
Project Team: Lena Krušec, Tomaž Krušec and Vid Kurinčič
Colaborators: Tina Mikulič, Vanja Milosavljevič, Jurij Nemec, Matej Nolda, Jan Šavli and Miha Žargi
Investor: Municipality of Celje, CMC Celje
Client: Municipality of Celje and CMC Celje
Project Area: 410 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Miran Kambič (http://www.mirankambic.com/)
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The town market is situated in the heart of the city. Ever since it was formed, in the middle of the previous century, the market has represented the centre of urban activity in the city.
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In contrast to the old market, the new development is designed as an extrovert urban area, a kind of covered city square which is inextricably linked to the surrounding urban space.
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The new market building is designed like a giant steel roof, which covers both closed as well as open stalls intended for costermongers. The roof is divided into several smaller roof surfaces, which have split levels so as to create transitive areas, penetrated by sunlight, which lights up the marketplace during the day.
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The pointed interspaces, which allow the market to enjoy natural lighting, also have a structural purpose, as they constitute the carrying supports which allow bridging of the entire width of the building without any intermediary supports.
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The monochrome colour design featured in the new market creates a neutral spatial background, which accentuates the colour diversity of the fruit, vegetables and other products available at the stalls. In the described manner, the final image of the architect’s work is not solely down to the work of the architect, whereas the appearance of the market is only complete when it is crowded with visitors.
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Athlone : Nantes Park to be redeveloped in 2011

Here is an old article in 2007 about its redevelopment. This is a vital link between the stadium and Vangate Mall, and the potential is there!

Athlone's R14 million park debate
by Barbara Meyer
29 Aug 2007 Peoples Post
Peoples Post

The cost of revamping Nantes Park, at an estimated cost of R14 million, has become the source of a raging debate between ward councillors, City Parks, schools and civic associations.

City Parks' landscape architect, Samantha Glen, pitched the plan to revamp Nantes Park, currently a derelict stretch of land in Bridgetown, to the local councillors at Subcouncil 17's meeting on Thursday, 16 August.

Glen says there is currently no budget available to develop the park, and the plan will seek to raise funds for the revamping of the park.

The overall cost could be in the region of R14 million, it was heard in the subcouncil meeting, but Glen argues that the cost could be divided into smaller amounts allowing for it to be developed over time.

Nantes Park - more commonly known as Athlone Park - runs along Appledene Road in Bridgetown and stretches to the back of the popular Vangate Mall.

If approved and funded, the park could become a venue for music concerts, informal trading, soccer games, skateboarding competitions, braais and nature walks.

Glen says the overall concept of the park is to expose more people in the area to nature and to create a place for events to occur.

A promenade is planned to be built along the Vygieskraal River. A braai area, sports field, parking area, kiosk and informal trading areas have been envisioned for the area. Glen says the top eastern area close to Vangate Mall would probably be handed over to river rehabilitation.

Ward councillor Charlotte Tabisher is in favour of the project, because she believes it will generate jobs for locals.

"This will not be a white elephant. There will be flea market on the park that can generate an income for the residents," Tabisher says.

"Now there will be a place for children to play and people to braai in safety," she says.

However, area coordinator Edgar Carollisen says unless the park has an economically viable business plan, the idea will be dead in the water before it has begun. Carollisen is firm on the matter.

"We need a business approach and a clear management plan for the park," he says.

He says there are more important issues in the area that need funding, such as unemployment and housing.

Felicity Seragie from the Bridgetown Civic Association says City Parks should first complete the projects they are currently running, such as fencing the existing parks, before starting new projects.

"How can it start new projects when the streets are not being cleaned and there is not decent equipment in the existing parks" Seragie asks.

"Nantes Park could become a white elephant. They invest money into parks and then the areas are under utilised and not maintained," she says.

Commenting on the matter yesterday, Susan Price, from City Parks, says the cost to revamp the park will more likely to be closer to R8 million. She says City Parks did approach churches and schools in the area for their participation and input into the plan.

Price says City Parks hopes to apply for funding for the park from the Department of Environment and Tourism, neighbourhood development grants and provisional funding.

She says the plans of the park may ultimately change within a five year time frame. "At one time Nantes Park was an important open space, but now it is used for drugs and crime. Park usage will make the area safer and discourage the invasion of squatters," she says.

Toyer Arnold, principal of Bridgetown High School, says he was never contacted in connection the revamping of Nantes Park. Arnold's main concern was safety in the park. "The problem will be vagrants. I have heard of people being mugged and girls raped in the park. We would have to employ a park keeper and deploy truant officers to bring back children from loitering in the park," he says.

In his personal capacity, Arnold was keen on the idea that the park would be available for athletic meetings because Green Point stadium and Athlone Stadium had been rendered unavailable due to the 2010 World Cup.

Carollisen concluded that all related departments will need to be consulted before the concept can be accepted or declined.
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