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Following the work undertaken by Alchemy Architects on various Universal Church of the Kingdom of God churches across South Africa we were asked to undertake the upgrade to the current administration offices of the church located in the central business district of Johannesburg.
The brief required the interior upgrading of the administrative offices, public service areas relating to HIV awareness, counselling rooms and a small Portuguese language 200 seated church. Further the façade of the building to be updated so as to match in materiality the recently completed cathedral building located adjacent to the administration building. We however proposed smaller vertical strip windows defining this building as ‘office’ rather than ‘church’.
The upgrading of the public street edge is envisaged allowing for the integration of the street hawkers and taxi stop as part of the overall development.
