The Onyx, Cape Town

City Centre Residential Conversion

Architect: Robert Silke & Partners

Interior Designer: Robert Silke & Partners

Client: Signatura

Exterior Photographers: Adam Letch & David Southwood

Interior Photographers: Adam Letch & Hamish Niven

Contract Value: R200,000,000.00

Contractor: JW Hugo

Completed: November 2018

John Rabie's Signatura chose us to convert the iconic Nedbank building on the Heerengracht into 219 high-end metropolitan apartments & hotel suites.

Mies van der Rohe's black glass signature architecture became known as ‘The International Style’ and is a design meme that spread to sophisticated cities around the world, including Cape Town, where Nedbank’s elegant 1968 Foreshore head office is now transformed into The Onyx.

We’ve intervened surgically in the façade with futuristic and curvaceous aluminium balconies. Insodoing, we’ve animated the striking black surfaces with luxurious, yacht-like terrace features in crisp white.