Sandton, Johannesburg

Read as a concrete money machine. Up close, a neighbourhood.

Sandton is Africa's financial capital and everyone knows it. Fewer people know the walkable, greening precinct underneath the skyline: the parkades giving way to pocket parks, the delis under the towers, the reason a growing number of professionals would rather work from here than from a spare room at home. This is that Sandton, told properly.

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An aerial view of the Sandton skyline at golden hour, glass towers threaded with green tree-lined streets

The case

Why work from Sandton, not from home

The spare-room office won the lockdown and then quietly stopped working. The precinct answers the thing it took away: people, a walk between meetings, lunch that is not at your own kitchen table. We make the argument in full, without the corporate gloss.

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The green city

The urban oasis hiding in plain sight

Glass towers get the photographs. The landscaped squares, the plane trees along the pavements and the public parks on the edge of the CBD rarely do. They are the half of Sandton that makes the rest liveable.

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The Pulse

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Food and culture

Lunch Under the Towers

How the precinct dines, from Nelson Mandela Square to the rooftops, without the tourist traps.

Architecture

Reading the Sandton Skyline

The Leonardo, the towers of Sandton Central and the shift to greener, mixed-use design.

The idea

Property and precinct are not two subjects. They are one place, read twice: once for the ambition, once for the life around it.

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