Besides the magnificent cityscape views, the Cape Town Central City is a very photo-friendly place, with many opportunities for Instagram moments in public spaces across the CBD. We introduce you to just a few of these with distinctly local themes.
FRAMED
To celebrate Table Mountain’s status as one of the New7Wonders of Nature, the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company teamed up with local artist Porky Hefer to give picture takers an opportunity to capture themselves against the majestic backdrop from various locations across the city – two of which are in the Central City. The first (seen above) is on the Cape Town Station Forecourt and the second can be found on Harrington Square (cnr Harrington and Caledon streets).
A MOMENT WITH MADIBA
While the Central City has many connections to the great late President Nelson Mandela, who passed away four years ago this month, two spots where pictures can be taken with images of Madiba are inside the Mandela Rhodes Place on St Georges Mall where a larger-than-life wire statue of the statesman stands, as well as a painted image of him on a wall on the Canterbury Street side of Harrington Square.
JETTY SQUARE AND PIER PLACE
Adjacent to each other and just off Heerengracht in the Foreshore area, these two public spaces boast some of the most intriguing statues in the Central City. Jetty Square is home to artist Ralph Borland’s enormous ghost shark sculptures that move with the wind as if they were swimming through the air, while Egon Tania’s detailed, life-sized bronze sculptures in Pier Place depict the everyday lives of Capetonians, from a business man on his phone and a child at play to a street person.
AN AFRICAN TAKE ON BART SIMPSON
Local artist Brett Murray’s simply titled “Africa” sculpture incorporates heads of Bart Simpson in a three-metre high bronze-cast visual explosion on St Georges Mall where it intersects with Waterkant Street.
OPEN HOUSE
On the corner of Dorp and Long streets in town, is the artwork “Open House”, a 10.5m high, bright-red structure designed by Jacques Coetzer and erected as a result of a Western Cape Government’s Public Art Competition in 2014. It serves as everything from a public platform for performances and other creative expressions, to just a cool structure to climb up in and have your lunch.
Images as supplied and courtesy of the CCID