Cape Town City Hall stands in South Africa's legislative capital, designed by the architects Henry Austin Reid and Frederick George Green after they won a public design competition in 1893, with construction finishing in 1900 and a formal opening ceremony held in 1905 under Mayor Hyman Liberman. The building is built in the Edwardian style from honey-colored limestone imported from Bath, England, giving it a warm, pale facade distinct from much of the surrounding city. Its balcony became a site of national historical significance on February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela delivered his first public speech there on the day of his release from decades of imprisonment. The hall returned to the center of South African public life in January 2022, hosting President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address after a fire damaged the country's Parliament building, and weeks later, on March 2, 2022, the city illuminated the hall in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag in solidarity following Russia's invasion. It continues to function as an active cultural venue, hosting orchestral performances, exhibitions and civic celebrations alongside its municipal role.
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Completed YearThe infobox lists Completed as 1900 and Opened as 1905, while the lead sentence states the building was built in 1905, so the article does not give one single agreed completion year. Building Type LocationCape Town, South Africa 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Cape Town City Hall - Wikipedia
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1. Cape Town City Hall - Wikipedia
Infobox, Type field
City Hall
Infobox, Location field
Grand Parade (Cape Town), Cape Town, South Africa
Infobox, Completed field
Completed: 1900
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Cape Town City Hall stands in South Africa's legislative capital, designed by the architects Henry Austin Reid and Frederick George Green after they won a public design competition in 1893, with construction finishing in 1900 and a formal opening ceremony held in 1905 under Mayor Hyman Liberman. The building is built in the Edwardian style from honey-colored limestone imported from Bath, England, giving it a warm, pale facade distinct from much of the surrounding city. Its balcony became a site of national historical significance on February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela delivered his first public speech there on the day of his release from decades of imprisonment. The hall returned to the center of South African public life in January 2022, hosting President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address after a fire damaged the country's Parliament building, and weeks later, on March 2, 2022, the city illuminated the hall in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag in solidarity following Russia's invasion. It continues to function as an active cultural venue, hosting orchestral performances, exhibitions and civic celebrations alongside its municipal role.
- In Style: Edwardian architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Edwardian
Uses Element: Limestone, Wikipedia lead
It is located on the Grand Parade, to the west of the Castle, and is built from honey-coloured oolitic limestone, imported from Bath in England.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Cape Town City Hall
- Wikidata Q4817466, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q4817466, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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