Four major wins for Paragon Group at SAPOA Awards 2019
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 Preview | Discovery Place in Sandton won the Interiors Award and Overall Award at the SAPOA Awards 2019. | 1.69 MB | Download |
 Preview | The main feature of Discovery Place is the striking main entrance. | 11.25 MB | Download |
 Preview | The Mbabane Hilton Garden Inn won the International Development category at the SAPOA Awards 2019. | 903.42 KB | Download |
 Preview | The Retail Development category was won by the Flamingo Shopping Centre in Modderfontein, Johannesburg. | 21.19 MB | Download |
 Preview | SAPOA Property Development Awards for Innovative Excellence 2019_1 | 3.74 MB | Download |
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Paragon Group’s first project for an international hotel chain, the Mbabane Hilton Garden Inn in Swaziland, won the International Development category. This 124-room, eight-storey development in the heart of the capital has been designed specifically as an iconic building for Hilton’s entry into the Swaziland market.
The Retail Development category was won by the Flamingo Shopping Centre in Modderfontein, Johannesburg, with its striking concrete ribbon undulating across the façade. This was refined during the design development and construction phases, resulting in a unique and elegant design solution compared to that of conventional strip-mall architecture.
Interior architecture company Paragon Interface, part of the Paragon Group, saw its work at 1 Discovery Place in Sandton receive both the Interiors Award and the Overall Award. The main feature of 1 Discovery Place is the open and welcoming main entrance, which reflects the corporate values of the client. Internally, the building is divided into three main atria, namely a central atrium, and one each on the left and right side.
The central atrium allowed Paragon Interface to explore the concept of a concourse, driven by Discovery’s requirement for the building to be active. This was not only translated effectively into a dynamic design aesthetic, but also into an active public street populated with seating areas, cafés, streetlights, and tree canopies.
Hosted by the South African Property Owners’ Association (SAPOA), the awards is the most prestigious programme of its kind within the South African commercial real-estate industry, aimed at defining excellence in the property sector.
The awards provide public recognition, as well as setting a benchmark, for top-quality design and functionality. Outstanding contributions from world-class owners, developers, and built environment professionals are showcased at the annual event.
Last year, the Paragon Group was Overall Winner in the Commercial Office Development category for 140 West Street, while Alice Lane 3 received a Commendation. Both are flagship projects in the redevelopment of the central business district in Sandton.
“Our ongoing success at the SAPOA Property Development Awards for Innovative Excellence is testament to both the quality and diversity of the projects we undertake. We are very proud of all of our hard-working team members involved with these iconic developments,” Paragon Group Media Manager Hugh Fraser concludes.
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About the Paragon Group
Paragon, established in October 1997, is an internationally-active African design business, based in Johannesburg. It delivers commercial architecture, masterplanning, interior design, and space planning to visionary clients in all property sectors.
We are committed to Africa, and believe in the future of its cities. Our roots are here. We have much to offer. We are able and agile, and actively participate in the continent’s urban and human development. Paragon is flexible and diverse in its approach to design. Each project is unique and not driven by style, but by lifestyle and a response to user needs. Elegant and efficient planning form the core of our designs. We understand the needs of our clients, and know how to generate ever new architectural forms in a competitive property market.
We are known for hands-on engagement with all opportunities present in the modern global building industry. The true measure of our skill is our ability to engage at all levels and with all players that make up the colourful world of construction and property development. Our buildings look forward. We embrace the future, because we will be a part of it – part of its problems and responsibilities, and part of its great freedoms and achievements.
Paragon Group Contact
Hugh Fraser
Media Manager
Phone: (011) 482 3781
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Cell: 083 309 4275
Email: media [at] paragon [dot] co [dot] za
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