It took 100 years to make this hotel

You can't build stories out of nothing and if the walls of Sea Point's Winchester Mansions could talk, it would grab your attention within seconds, and you would cling to its lips for days.

Built as an apartment block in the 1920s, the building was transformed into a hotel in the 1960s. Through the years it has undergone many renovations and transformations, and on the cusp of the building's 100 years of existence, change is happening again.

Enjoy this peek into the past, and into the new Winchester Mansions Hotel, opening its doors soon again.

We thank everyone who made the video possible:
Andrew Flint, Architect & Director, GAPP Architects & Urban Designers
Lisa Doucha, Architect, GAPP Architects & Urban Designers
Madre Meyer, Creative Director, Source IBA
Dr André van Graan, Heritage Architect
Bianca Keiser, Black Mango
Ismaeel Chetty
and Winchester Mansions.

This video was made by Digital Shelf.
Directed: Johann M Smith
Written: Anje Rautenbach
Audio: Auren Viljoen

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VIDEOS/ARTICLES/PHOTOS USED IN THIS VIDEO AS IT APPEARED

Lord Oom Piet, 1962
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367985/fullcredits

TABLE MOUNTAIN
Verkeerde Nommer, 1982
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2142025/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

CAPE TIMES 22 MAY 2012, Western Cape Youth Wage Subsidy

Winchester Mansions Impressionistic Paintings for Healing by Dr. Michael Durst

Wedding photo, Frank Nash

3D Imagery courtesy of GAPP Architects and SOURCE IBA

BIKINI MODEL
Bobby Graham
https://www.flickr.com/photos/libertylittlebasil/

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