{"id":230967,"date":"2018-03-12T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=230967"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T09:45:18","slug":"a-look-at-the-ambitious-new-plant-dome-planned-for-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/230967\/a-look-at-the-ambitious-new-plant-dome-planned-for-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the ambitious new ‘Plant Dome’ planned for Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cape Town’s\u00a0Luthuli Plaza is set to undergo a significant redesign at the hands of\u00a0LOLA Architects\u00a0and Design Indaba<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Originally\u00a0built as a way of connecting the transport hub where people catch taxis, trains and buses to the Artscape precinct, the plaza now stands grey and mostly unused.<\/p>\n

Design Indaba in collaboration with landscape architect\u00a0Peter Veenstra, and Olav Bruin\u00a0of\u00a0Nomadic Resorts, now plans to breathe new life into the square by adding ‘the Dome of Plants’ – an\u00a0urban public garden that starts at the Cape Town taxi rank and ends at Artscape.<\/p>\n

Design Indaba said that the dome will\u00a0be constructed with natural materials such as bamboo, wood and fynbos plants like\u00a0Spekboom, which is known for its hardiness and ability to convert carbon dioxide into clean oxygen.<\/p>\n

As the area is also facing a severe water shortage,\u00a0Veenstra\u00a0added that the dome will be fed by “purified urine from the\u00a0bureaucrats\u00a0working in the Cape Town Civic Centre building”, situated right behind the dome’s proposed location.<\/p>\n

“The dome will take up\u00a0175 square meters of indoor space, complete with amphitheatre-style seating, stage and podium.\u00a0At night, the site will transform, casting a soft green glow on Luthuli Plaza.”<\/p>\n

“Together they offer space for discussions, events, workshops, exhibitions, meetings, lunch and a quick coffee outside the big institutions, accessible for everyone,” Design Indaba said.<\/p>\n

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Cape Town’s\u00a0Luthuli Plaza is set to undergo a significant redesign at the hands of\u00a0LOLA Architects\u00a0and Design Indaba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[12919,26],"class_list":["post-230967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-design-indaba","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230989,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230967\/revisions\/230989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}