GRANULAR REINVENTION

ZEITZ MOCAA

For over 80 years, the grand and historic Grain Silo, located on the edge of Cape Town’s docklands was a force in the city’s agricultural economy. Billions of tons of grain were delivered to the elevator tower, hoisted to the top of the 60 metre silo bins and then processed inside their gargantuan concrete cells before being shipped across the country.

Now, almost 15 years since it fell into disuse in the 1990s, its monumental façade, fallow innards and hulking