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PLANTATION ROAD

Ever heard that thing that people say about not taking your work home with you? Stephen Hitchcock and David Long of Stretch Architects are certainly not those people. In 2015, the friends and business partners were facing the same dilemma – both wanted to move their families into Cape Town’s City Bowl but both were impeded by prohibitive property prices. ‘We were determined to find a way to live in the city and the only way to do that was to share space,’ says Stephen. So when a little sliver of a plot in Vredehoek became available – situated at the foot of Table Mountain, and overlooking the city and Cape Town’s harbour

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