The Silo Hotel

The Silo Hotel

A converted 1924 grain silo hotel above Zeitz MOCAA at the V&A Waterfront

The Silo Rooftop at The Silo Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa.

The Silo Hotel

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The Silo Rooftop at The Silo Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa.
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The Silo Hotel occupies the grain elevator portion of a 1924 silo complex at the V&A Waterfront, with six hotel floors built directly above Zeitz MOCAA, the largest contemporary African art museum on the continent. Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studio redesigned the exterior: the most visible alteration is a series of outward-curving glass windows, each assembled from fifty-six panels, that bow away from the building's facade. After dark, the lit windows read as a single illuminated form against Table Bay.

The hotel has twenty-eight suites across several categories. The eight Silo Rooms run to forty-four square metres each; the six Duplex Suites spread across two floors between seventy-six and eighty-eight square metres, with mountain or harbour views; the seven Deluxe Superior Suites on the eighth through tenth floors reach up to sixty-seven square metres. The two Royal Suites are each one hundred and thirty-two square metres, with triple-aspect views toward the Atlantic, Robben Island, and the mountains. The one-bedroom Penthouse includes a cinema room, a dedicated spa treatment room, and two private balconies; it can be reconfigured as a two-bedroom layout. Every suite has its own balcony and a selection of African art — the hotel holds over three hundred pieces in total, assembled with local galleries by the Biden family.

On-site: The Granary Café and The Willaston Bar on the sixth floor, a rooftop pool and bar, and a fourth-floor spa with five treatment rooms, a gym, and a sauna. The Art Concierge arranges private tours of both the in-house collection and the museum below. Robben Island, nine kilometres offshore, is visible from the rooftop.