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urban oasis

How do you succeed in structurally altering a hotel’s public spaces without disturbing its current guests? This was the challenge facing SourceIBA’s creative director Mardre Meyer during the three months he and his team recently spent on refurbishments of 15 on Orange Hotel, Autograph Collection in Cape Town.

The revamp

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