Cape Town's new Battery Park to give city slickers a break
The 12‚000m² park has open fields‚ indigenous fynbos gardens and trees‚ built on top of the ruins of a 200-year-old artillery installation
The new Silo District‚ with its massive grain silo redesigned to resemble a bee hive and which now houses the Zeits Museum for Contemporary Art Africa‚ will have to share the spotlight with the V&A Waterfront’s new project. V&A Waterfront CEO David Green says that Battery Park will be a decommercialised public space for people to take a break in the middle of the city. The 12‚000m² park has open fields‚ indigenous fynbos gardens and trees‚ built on top of the ruins of a 200-year-old artillery installation meant to deter hostile warships from entering the harbour.
What would a South African public space be without a braai area? And there are basketball courts‚ a skate park and a play area for kids. Two massive 18th century cannons stand ready to destroy the consulting firm just across the canal from the reconstructed 18th century artillery fortification “with a contemporary take”. Green said that the waterway was a public swimming space with the potential for water polo and oth...
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