Empty wine bottles feature in new-look recycled commercial building at V&A Waterfront

Net-zero building on the cards for famous Cape Town precinct

05 June 2024 - 21:41

It’s not what you expect to see at the V&A Waterfront: a wall made with wine bottles, the contents long-since consumed; roof and columns made from demolished building scraps; windows and floorboards pilfered from some other place...

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