The award was achieved in the category which encompasses all developments which fall outside of commercial property.

Oasis is jointly developed by Harries Projects and Madison Property Fund Managers on behalf Redefine Income Fund.

This represents the SAPOA recognition in for excellence in property design and development in recent years for Harries Projects and MHA (Marc Harries Architects), in association with Ray Alexander Architects. In 2006, the same design and project management and professional teams, together with M&R Construction won the award, jointly with Rabie Properties, for the Island Club development, also at Century City.

Island Club went on to attain further recognition at the prestigious international Bentley Awards in London.

“It is wonderful to achieve this acknowledgement. From its very inception we have aimed to produce a product of the highest standards and quality and this has certainly be achieved,” says Marc Harries.

Oasis Luxury Retirement Resort currently comprises two magnificent apartment blocks, Palm Springs and Palm Grove, with a total of 182 spacious sectional title units and a state-of-the-art Care Centre offering apartment units on a ‘Life Right’ basis as well as Frail Care facility providing both geriatric care but also sub-acute and post-operative care. The facility is registered with a practice number provided by the Board of Health Funders of South Africa.

The heart and highlight of the development is the Oasis Club, a facility that is unparalleled in South Africa. It includes a 25m heated indoor pool, fully equipped gym, exercise room, sauna, steam room, bridge room, billiard room, mini cinema area, library, hobbies room, outdoor martini pool with fountain, braai and recreation areas, outdoor leisure activities, restaurant, bar, coffee bar and a variety of lounge areas.

The buildings are set in a park like landscape, ribboned with paths, ponds, and streams. The development is extensively shaped and a magnificent berm has been appropriately planted with shrubs, trees and flowers, forming a ‘green and colourful wall’ to the development.

“Oasis has much future growth potential,” notes Mike Flax of Madison. There are plans for three more sectional title apartment blocks, offering some 270 further residential opportunities with the possibility of an extended and enlarged Care Centre offering. The third apartment block, Palm Royal, will offer superior apartments with special features on the upper and garden level floors and will be directly linked to the Oasis Club.

“An Oasis connotes a place of shade, of safety and security, of respite and refuge, of restoration and rejuvenation. The Oasis Resort evidences and reflects these features throughout,” says Harries.

The buildings are a unique addition to Century City skyline with their own distinctive features. Although an ‘oasis’ of itself, this retirement resort is at the heart of a major ‘new urbanist’ precinct in the form of Century City, where thousands of people are living, working and playing each day. This provides numerous shopping, leisure, entertainment and service facilities on one’s doorstep.

These facilities, together with those of Oasis, provide for a full and active life in a neighborhood that has sprung up to maturity in the heart of the Cape Town Metropole, just minutes from the CBD and many suburbs where the families of the retirees reside.