Working for the V&A Waterfront as both owner and investor, DHI identified and assembled the professional team needed to deliver the repositioning.
Architects. Interior designers. Project managers. Engineers. IT consultants. Swimming pool specialists. Other technical advisers.
But selecting the team was only part of the job.The existing hotel brief and facilities had been shaped around an established Sun International hotel. They now needed to be rethought against the requirements and expectations of a global InterContinental urban luxury resort.
At the same time, the hotel could no longer be considered in isolation.The wider Granger Bay precinct was evolving. The Bower, the V&A Waterfront’s first later-living community, was planned on the hotel’s existing parking area, while the new Cape Town EDITION would sit alongside the hotel’s delivery and back-of-house areas.
The repositioning therefore had to consider not only the hotel itself, but how it would operate and function within the future precinct.
From inception through concept design and design development, we worked with the V&A Waterfront, IHG and the professional team to redefine the hotel, its facilities and the development brief. We then brought the design, programme, scope and capital requirements together into an investment case that allowed the V&A Waterfront and its shareholders, the PIC and Growthpoint, to make the investment decision.
Once the investment was approved, the full delivery team was appointed and physical construction began, our development management mandate was complete.
The Table Bay closed under Sun International in January 2025. Eleven months later, on 15 December 2025, it reopened as the InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town.