Happily for Dawid Augustyn, the chance to set up home in Clarens – one of Cape Town Atlantic Seaboard’s coolest new apartment blocks – happened completely seamlessly. Dawid explains, “I worked with the developers – Malcolm Kluk and Christiaan Gabriël Du Toit of KLûK CGDT and Hours Clear Architects – as the project’s quantity surveyor, so I’d been watching its journey from an insider’s perspective from the ground up.” From the start, he adds, “Their vision of a community lifestyle, based on a non-standard approach to the look and feel of the building and interiors, resonated well with me.”
At street level, the four-storey building’s blush-pink, open-bond brick screen façade and sculptural entrance portico are high-octane eye candy for Fresnaye, a toney neighbourhood on the Atlantic Seaboard slopes of Table Mountain and a minute’s walk from the Sea Point promenade. There is a lot going for the locale, and many of its elegant avenues are now fringed with new-build, off-plan boxy grey blocks that reinforce a generic real-estate trope.
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