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REVELSTONE

COBBLES

COMPLEMENT

NEW PARKADE

pedestrian precinct and garden
courtyard which flank P3, a recently
A completed three-storey parkade
adjacent to a Virgin Active gym at Century
City, has been paved with Jura Cobbles
manufactured by Cape-based cast-stone
producer, Revelstone.
Clad with an attractive perforated
aluminium screen, P3 was built for the
Rabie Property Group by main contractor, Revelstone’s Jura Cobble at the new P3 parkade at Century City.
WBHO. It was designed by Vivid Architects
and the project’s civil work was done by
Neil Zaaiman Civils.
“We chose Jura Cobble because it’s patterning which otherwise could have
Landscape architect Alistair Turrell of
Planning Partners designed the landscape a refined product with a very regular competed with the architecture”.
installation for the pedestrian precinct in module,” said Turrell. “And its colour
collaboration with Vivid Architects. The tones complement the dark brickwork Revelstone’s Jura Cobble has also been
Jura Cobbles were laid by TJ Paving on a of the garden walls and the perforated used on several other upmarket projects
sub-base of 150mm G5 aggregate. aluminium screens.This is a high-trafficked including the V&A Waterfront’s No. 5 Silo
pedestrian zone and the irregular project where it lines an indoor walkway
composition of the planting zones in the on the ground floor.
Combining paving space with beds of
indigenous foliage and trees, the paved courtyard lent itself to the herringbone
precinct includes benches clipped onto pattern which was adopted for the For more information contact
the raised beds, making it a space for layout of the cobbles. They exhibit no Alexander Cyprianos 086 117 3835
relaxation rather than a mere thoroughfare. differentiation in direction nor extensive

Revelstone’s Jura Cobble at the new P3 parkade at Century City.

14 Landscape SA • Issue 92 2020