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Portside is a 139-metre-tall (456 ft) building in Cape Town, South Africa. Completed in 2014, it is the city's tallest building [ 3 ] and, at the time of completion, was Cape Town's first significant skyscraper developed in the central business district (CBD) in 15 years.
The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of South Africa, and as such has one of the largest bank vaults in South Africa. The building was sold in February 2003 for Rand 6.4 million (USD $640.000), which may prompt the name to be changed to that of the new tenant.
Financial district of Cape Town as seen from the summit of Signal Hill. This list of tallest buildings in Cape Town ranks completed buildings by height in the South African city of Cape Town, Western Cape, the second-largest city in South Africa. [1] Cape Town's tallest building is the Portside Tower, which stands at 139 m (456 ft); the tower ...
1 Thibault Square, formally known as the LG Building and originally known as the "BP Centre", is a 126.5-metre (415 ft) modernist skyscraper on the European-style Thibault Square at the end of St George's Mall, Cape Town, South Africa. [2] [5] [6] Work on the building began in 1969 and was completed in 1972.
This is a list of the heritage sites in Cape Town's CBD, the Waterfront, and the Bo-Kaap as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. [1] [2]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.
Cape Town City Hall; Cape Town Civic Centre; Cape Town International Convention Centre; Castle of Good Hope; Cavendish Square (shopping centre) Centre for the Book; Church Square (Cape Town) Community House (Salt River, Cape Town) Coornhoop
The building is 117 metres (384 ft) tall. It consists of a four-storey podium and a 29-storey tower block characterised by a concrete central core. [ 4 ] Its continuous glass curtain wall façades were the first of their kind in Cape Town.
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. With the suburbs of Devil's Peak , Vredehoek , Oranjezicht and Higgovale in the foreground, the unrestricted view enjoyed by residents of Disa Park can be appreciated