Hyde Park Corner is a
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre ( Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known colle ...
in
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
It is located in
Hyde Park at the major intersection of
Jan Smuts Avenue and
William Nicol Drive. and was completed in November 1969 and built by Murray & Roberts Construction, now renamed
Concor
Concor Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. is a South African construction and mining services company. It is active throughout Southern Africa, involved in mining, civil engineering, building and road projects. Concor returned as an independent br ...
.
It was one of the first fully enclosed decentralised shopping centres in South Africa.
It houses permanent mosaic artworks by historically significant South African artists and hosts the yearly Rotary International Art Fair.
External links
Official site
Buildings and structures completed in 1969
Shopping centres in Johannesburg
20th-century architecture in South Africa
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