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A Pool Room in the Forest
At a residence in Noordhoek, Tensile Cables supplied the cables for a roof truss for a wet room, including an enclosed heated swimming pool, a steam room and bathrooms. Contractor and project manager Nevil Walter, designed the pool room with transparent roof sheeting, and a hollow triangular section supporting it.
Imizamo Yethu Water Platform in Digest of SA Architecture
Congratulations to Mike Louw, Senior Lecturer, and the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town for their project feature in the 21st Digest of South African Architecture. The article features their 2016 Water Platform, for which Tensile Cables was a Project Partner.
110 The Lofts
Tensile Cables and Scotchworx Carpentry collaborated on a beautiful and unique installation at the new apartments The Lofts in Tokai, Cape Town. The client, Michael Anderson of O La La Interiors was renovating the 70m2 studio loft apartment, and wanted a more elegant solution for the staircase and landing balustrades which overpowered the space.
Tensile Cables & Tension Structures – closer than ever
As some of you may know, Tensile Cables’s sister company Tension Structures has been an influential player in the tensile fabric structure industry in Southern Africa and internationally since 1993, with Ken Price at the helm holding over 40 years of structural engineering experience. While Tensile Cables and Tension Structures have always worked alongside one another, and together completed many successful projects
A green wall in a contemporary courtyard
In a tranquil contemporary garden, a full scale wall trellis turns what would have been a blank white wall into the perfect finishing touch to an enclosed courtyard. The trellis is made up of Marine Grade 316 stainless steel cables tensioned to L-shaped end brackets and fixed with Tensile Cables’ custom designed trellis clamps.
Penda reveal San Shan Bridge for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games
This structural feature fulfills multiple functions on the way to Zhangjiakou, where all major events for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be taking place in Beijing. It was designed by Penda, and will be built in collaboration with Arup engineering. Structurally, it connects the two banks of the Gui River with a 452 meter long bridge deck suspended by steel cables from 6 sloping rings cross connected in such a way as to maximise strength through lateral resistance.
180 degrees through Clear View Balustrades
The beautiful Baviaanskloof Estate is not only nestled against the mountain but boasts 180 degree views into the Hout Bay valley and out over the bay. Clear View Balustrades requested Tensile Cables supply stainless steel cables to finish three balustrades in a new home on the estate. The main living area and kitchen open onto a full length patio stepping down to a pool.
New property development in Lakeside’s Klein Welgemeend Estate
After the project’s inception in 2008, the 17,701 m2 Klein Welgemeend Estate was opened for development in 2013 and now boasts 10 modern townhouses and 11 stands beautifully blended into the natural landscape of the Lakeside mountainside.
UCT’s Annual Imizamo Yethu Water Platform
In Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, Cape Town an estimated 9464 households (as surveyed by the Solid Waste Department of the City of Cape Town in May 2011) make use of shared toilets and taps – this means that the service ratio in the settlement is 61.1 households per toilet and a staggering 394.3 households per tap. As part of a continuing effort to engage with this issue,