The Recent Opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz Mocaa) Symbolises a Structural and Cultural Rebirth in the Mother City
How and why do old buildings appeal to us?’ asks English designer Thomas Heatherwick, whose world-renowned studio conceptualised the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. ‘Is it just because they are old, or because of the way their scale or detail – or something else – works?’ There aren’t simple answers to these questions, but what is certain is that old buildings often have an atmosphere and attraction that new ones lack.
Built in 1921, the Grain Silo Complex in which the Zeitz MOCAA is situated was the tallest building in southern Africa for half a century and the storage site for tons of harvested mielies before they were exported via the harbour. The structure, which is almost entirely made up of huge reinforced concrete tubes, has not been used for its original purpose since 2001.
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