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The Verandah Laneways — festoon-lit cobbled lane between brick warehouse gables below Table Mountain

Verandah Laneways

A row of derelict brick warehouses below Table Mountain, reopened as a retail and eating laneway — photographed as the precinct it will become.

Overview

Derelict warehouses reopened as the precinct they will become.

  1. 01CGI Stills
  2. 02AI Film
ClientPrivate client
LocationCape Town ZA
SectorRetail and dining precinct
StageConcept to leasing
Year2025
ServicesCGI stills · AI film
Deliverables10 frames · day-in-the-life film · process set

A row of brick warehouses below Table Mountain, reopened as a laneway of shops and eating. The film runs a full day of the precinct's future life, and the stills hold the brick exactly as weathered as it really is.

Services delivered
CGI Stills
Aerial visualisation of the sawtooth brick roofs with new glazed rooflights and Table Mountain behind
Visualisation of the blackened steel and glass mezzanine inserted into the brick warehouse hall
Deadpan elevation showing new steel and glass shopfronts set into the original brick openings
The new steel portal entrance from the street with people walking through onto the cobbles
High-end fashion tenancy with steel rails and travertine plinths standing clear of the brick wall
Brewery taproom with a blackened steel bar, brass taps and tanks behind glass under the old trusses
Bookshop with full-height oak shelving built as a free-standing insert inside the brick shell
Gallery and studio with a white box inserted into the brick shell, trusses exposed above
Creative agency studio on the steel mezzanine looking down into the hall below
Boutique florist with a zinc bench opening to the cobbled lane through a steel shopfront
Detail of the new steel column on its base plate bolted clear of the original brickwork
Close crop of brick, terrazzo, blackened steel, oak and brass together
Afternoon sun through a new glazed rooflight across the brick wall and mezzanine edge
The lane busy on a Saturday with the tenancies open and people at oak tables
The lane at blue hour with every shopfront lit warm and the rooflights glowing above
AI Film
Process Images
Hand-drawn axonometric cutaway showing the new mezzanine and fin screens inside the brick shell
Freehand ink perspective sketch looking down the laneway
Untextured 3D model wireframe of the steel mezzanine structure
Journal page of thumbnail plans and sectional studies
Tenancy and circulation diagram of the precinct
Measured detail section of a timber fin screen fixed back to the masonry
Hand-drawn site plan of the precinct either side of the central lane
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