This aerial photograph captures Ellipse Waterfall, the high-rise residential development at the heart of Waterfall City in Midrand, Gauteng. The four distinctive curved towers — Cassini, Newton, Kepler and Galileo — are prominent in the foreground and form one of the defining residential landmarks of Waterfall City. Ellipse comprises 643 apartments across the four towers.
Immediately behind Ellipse is the Mall of Africa, the major retail anchor of Waterfall City. The extensive white-roofed complex is clearly visible at the centre of the image, surrounded by a growing network of offices, hotels, residential buildings and roads.
To the right of the Mall of Africa is the Nexus Waterfall precinct. Nexus is a 32,000 m² mixed-use development located across the road from the Mall of Africa on Karkloof Crescent. It comprises three P-Grade office buildings, restaurants and the Courtyard Hotel Waterfall City (Atria), arranged around a landscaped central piazza. The precinct is designed around pedestrian connections between the surrounding office, residential and retail areas.
The Courtyard Hotel Waterfall City is the prominent hotel within Nexus. The contemporary 10-storey hotel opened in March 2021 and forms the flagship property of City Lodge Hotels in the Waterfall precinct. It currently provides 161 rooms, comprising studio rooms, junior suites and executive suites, together with restaurants, conference facilities, a fitness room, swimming pool and the rooftop Highline lounge.
The tall tower further to the right is the PwC Tower, another major Waterfall City landmark. Together, Ellipse, Mall of Africa, Nexus Waterfall, Courtyard Hotel and the surrounding commercial developments illustrate the transformation of Waterfall from largely undeveloped land into a major mixed-use urban and business destination between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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