We provided quantity surveying services for the restoration, alterations, and additions to this gallery and office building at 56 Church Street in Cape Town’s historic city fabric located between Long and Burg Street. The building is heritage graded 3(b) and dates back to the 1820s. As a historic ‘pakhuis’, or storage warehouse, the building’s narrow proportions and single street facing facade required careful investigation before design could begin, including a month long process of peeling back existing layers to understand the structure’s history.
As Professional Quantity Surveyors, we managed cost planning and budget control, balancing the reuse of original materials, dry pack stone walls, yellowwood beams, and Oregon roof trusses, with new interventions including a central courtyard and natural stack ventilation. The restored 1950s teak facade and stairwell sit alongside light, neutral modern finishes, giving a former storage building a new identity without losing its historic character.
