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List of tallest buildings in Africa. Lagos, Nigeria. Nairobi, Kenya. Cairo, Egypt. Cape Town, South Africa. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This article ranks the tallest skyscrapers on the African continent by height. Initially, only a small number of major financial and commercial centres boasted large skylines, such as Cairo, Johannesburg, New ...
One World Trade Center: New York City United States: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2012 3.80 [17] 4.49 Marina Bay Financial Centre: Singapore Singapore: Kohn Pedersen Fox with DCA Architects Hongkong Land, Keppel REIT, Suntec REIT, DBS Bank: 2010 3.21 [18] 3.99 Lotte World Tower: Seoul South Korea ...
Ponte City[1] is a skyscraper in the Berea district of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow. It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), and was the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa for 48 years, until overtaken in 2023 by Building D01, in Egypt 's New Administrative Capital. The 55-storey building is cylindrical ...
Skyscraper. Egypt. New Administrative Capital. Construction started in May, 2018, [1] and was completed in 2024. Simultaneously the tallest building in Africa and the continent's tallest structure overall. 30°00′36″N 31°41′45″E / 30.0100818°N 31.6957747°E / 30.0100818; 31.6957747 (Iconic Tower) Nador transmitter. 380 ...
The tallest building in the city is the new 32- storey, 200 metres (660 ft) Britam Towers. The second-tallest building in the city is the 31- storey, 184 metres (604 ft) GTC Office Tower. [1] The most recent skyscrapers to be constructed are Prism Tower, Le'Mac and FCB Mirhab Tower. Nairobi's history of towers began with the IPS Building (1967 ...
The Leonardo is a 55-floor mixed-use property development in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. The fourth tallest building in Africa and the tallest in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, it stands at a height of 234 metres (768 ft). [1] [2] The building is built at 75 Maude Street, approximately 100 metres from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
The building houses the national headquarters of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), one of Uganda's political parties. 7 Cham Towers — 16 1979 The building was formerly owned by Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB) and was known as UCB House. In the mid-2000s, UCB was acquired by Standard Bank of South Africa, and transformed into Stanbic Bank Uganda.
Djamaa el Djazaïr. Djamaa el Djazaïr (Arabic: جامع الجزائر), also known as the Great Mosque of Algiers (French: Grande mosquée d'Alger), is a large mosque located in Algiers, Algeria. Opened in April 2019, it houses the world's tallest minaret and is the third-largest mosque in the world after the Great Mosque of Mecca and Al ...