ICM Architectural Studio is an industrial architecture practice specialising in warehouse design. We design speculative, distribution and logistics warehouses for property developers, funds and the companies that occupy them. The four warehouse projects below range from a 12,937 m² precinct of three units in Waterfall to two speculative buildings totalling 49,218 m² near Durban’s harbour.
From our Randburg office we work as warehouse architects across South Africa, including Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
Industrial work has been central to the practice since it was founded in 1999, and our directors are personally involved throughout every project.
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Our Warehouse Work
Two speculative warehouses · Mobeni East, Durban · 49,218 m²
Second building on a logistics campus · Kempton Park, Johannesburg · 20,765 m²
Three warehouses with offices, for Attacq · Waterfall, Midrand · 12,937 m²
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Warehouse Design
These are questions our warehouse projects had to answer.
A speculative warehouse is built before a tenant signs. Clairwood Pocket 4’s two speculative buildings were planned around container logistics close to Durban’s harbour. A building for a known occupier can be shaped around one operation, as Dromex’s was.
At Clairwood Pocket 4, close to Durban’s harbour, site planning put operational flow first, and the external yards were strengthened for heavy handling equipment and stacked containers.
Each of LP8 Midi’s three warehouses has its own double-storey office block. Dromex added a client-facing showroom to its warehouse and distribution building.
Warehouse expansion can mean a second building. Crusader Logistics commissioned its second building straight after the first was finished. It was placed next to the original so the two work as one campus, with the company’s local head office built into the new building.
Warehouses on main routes can carry a brand. LP8 Midi’s has street frontage on Bawa Lane and signage facing Bridal Veil Road; the Dromex building sits above the Umhlanga Ridge.
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FAQ
Yes. Clairwood Pocket 4 is two speculative warehouse buildings, 49,218 m² in total, in Mobeni East, Durban.
Yes. The practice regularly acts as Principal Agent on its projects.
Our office is in Randburg, Johannesburg, and we take on warehouse projects across South Africa, including Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The projects on this page are in Gauteng (Kempton Park, Waterfall) and KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, Cornubia).
Yes. Dromex’s 24,560 m² building in Cornubia, Durban, is a warehouse and distribution facility, and Crusader Logistics (2) in Kempton Park incorporates distribution centre technologies.
Yes. Each of LP8 Midi’s three warehouses has a double-storey office block, and Crusader Logistics (2) includes the company’s local head office.
