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Rank Name Image Height m/ft Floors Year Notes 1 Kampala Intercontinental Hotel — 34 TBD Also referred to as Kingdom Hotel Kampala, the development will include a 250-room, 34-story hotel tower, a conference center that can accommodate over 3,000 delegates, parking space for over 1,500 vehicles, and rentable retail and office space measuring in excess of 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft).
The Ivory Tower construction started in 1930s and ended in 1941 under the leadership of George C. Turner who served as the Principal of Makerere College from 1939 to 1946. [1] [2] [5] [4] [6] The construction of the Ivory Tower building was funded by Colonial Development bourse. [2] [7] [8] [4]
The skyscraper is located between 71–75 Yusuf Lule Road and 24–26 Clement Hill Road, on Nakasero Hill, in the Central Division of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. [1] The geographical coordinates of the Uganda Inspectorate of Government Towers are: 0°19'10.0"N, 32°35'26.0"E (Latitude:0.319444; Longitude:32.590556).
The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings.Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish.
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade. The original dataset used to create this list [ 1 ] was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English-speaking reporting.
A burnt out school bus is seen at the fire-damaged Aveson Charter School from the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California on Jan. 13, 2025. / Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
The skyscraper will be located along Kira Road, in the Kampala neighborhood known as Kamwookya, approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi), by road, northeast of the central business district of Kampala [1] (pop.1,720,000). [2]
The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 7, 2025. Credit - Ethan Swope—AP More than 100,000 residents have been forced to evacuate Los ...