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Kingsway Mansions takes its name from the road which it faces, which was once lined with tall blue gum trees. The building was designed by the prominent architect P. Rogers Cook who with the practice of J.C. Cooke and Cowan was responsible for an impressive collection of Art Deco buildings in central Johannesburg and for a number of theatres and movie houses including The Playhouse in Durban ...
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 ...
Hillbrow Tower (right) with Ponte Apartment building and the skyline of Hillbrow. Hillbrow (/ ˈ h ɪ l b r oʊ /) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution [2] and crime.
Killarney is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. A relatively wealthy area, located west of the M1 freeway, Killarney is a densely built-up area, and it has numerous apartment blocks, as well as a large shopping mall, Killarney Mall. Neighbouring suburbs include Houghton Estate, Riviera, and Parktown.
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.
Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [citation needed] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard, Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in Africa).
Hyde Park Corner is a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Hyde Park at the major intersection of Jan Smuts Avenue and William Nicol Drive. It was completed in November 1969 and built by Murray & Roberts Construction, now renamed Concor. It was one of the first fully enclosed decentralised shopping centres in South ...
Edcon Limited was a retail company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its subsidiaries included Edgars , a department store with 203 [ 2 ] branches. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2020, the Competition Tribunal approved the sale of the Edgars division to Retailability (pty) Ltd , [ 5 ] and Jet to The Foschini Group .