![Carmel Building Blue Plaque - Johannesburg Heritage Foundation - 2019 Carmel Building Blue Plaque - Johannesburg Heritage Foundation - 2019](https://www.theheritageportal.co.za/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/public/Carmel%20Building%20Blue%20Plaque%20-%20Johannesburg%20Heritage%20Foundation%20-%202019.jpg?itok=aQp73cP4)
Built in 1896, this highly decorated block of flats would certainly have formed a landmark on the edge of the mining town. The shops on the ground floor echo the shape dictated by the diagonal line. Presumably the name change occurred with the anti-German feeling in World War I. In 1987 Carmel and the adjoining Nathanson’s Building were earmarked for demolition but a public outcry led architects RFB to a new solution. This involved shifting Gardees Arcade further west and cantilevering the proposed new office preserving the arcade to this day.
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16 Diagonal Street, Newtown
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Photographs of the Carmel Building (The Heritage Portal)