old mutual building pinelands Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/old-mutual-building-pinelands Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:59:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 OLD MUTUAL BUILDING Darling Street Cape Town http://toursmaps.com/old-mutual-building-darling-street-cape-town.html http://toursmaps.com/old-mutual-building-darling-street-cape-town.html#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247628 The entrance lobby. Black, gold-veined onyx for the walls and burnished gold leaffor the ceiling. At the summit of the 17 steps is the entrance to the Banking Hall, surmounted by a window into which is etched the ziggurat shape of the building. editorial in The South African Architect in January 1940 said: ‘The Old Mutual has given to the Mother City an architectural landmark of which citizens may be justly proud.’ It was right at the time, and it’s a pity now that not many get to see what survives within. After all, this building epitomises the Art Deco

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