Disa Park is one of the best-known pieces of architecture in the Vredehoek area of Cape Town, South Africa.
The towers were built in response to a "white housing crisis" in the city and completed in 1969.
[2] Built by the construction company Murray & Roberts in the 1960s, these three 17 story, cylindrical towers, called Blinkwater, Platteklip and Silverstroom, are nestled on the slopes of Table Mountain, and are almost universally proclaimed to be a blemish on the face of the majestic mountain.
[1] Murray & Roberts found a loop hole in the building restrictions on the mountainside, and built the base below the allowable development line, then built upward, above the line.
The residents tend to disagree with the demolitionists;[citation needed] their homes have access to dozens of trails and hikes on their doorstep as well as a tennis court, squash courts, braai area and a swimming pool.