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Architecture · Commercial · Hospitality · Cape Town

Quarry Edge Hotel

A hotel that occupies the cut rather than sitting on it, using the quarry's own geometry as the plan.

Projects/Quarry Edge Hotel

Discipline
Architecture
Sector
Commercial
Type
Hospitality
Location
Cape Town
Year
2026
Status
On site
Area
4,600 m²
Client
Quarry Edge Ltd

The project

The face was left in benches by a century of extraction. Those benches are the building: rooms sit in the cut at three levels, the quarry floor becomes the arrival court, and almost nothing projects beyond the original profile.

Rock stability governed everything. A third of the programme is where it is because that was the only place the geotechnical report permitted anchoring, and the restaurant moved three times before it found ground that would take it.

Water is the other constraint. The site has none, so the roof of every bench harvests to a tank cut into the face behind reception.

Before and after

What was here, and what is here now.

Quarry Edge Hotel after completion
Quarry Edge Hotel before works
BeforeAfter
BeforeThe rooms going into the quarry face, with the geotechnical engineer and architects assessing bench stability.AfterThe completed rooms occupying the cut, arrival court on the quarry floor below.

Parts of the building

Quarry Edge Hotel, Bench rooms

Bench rooms

Three levels, all within the original cut profile.

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