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The Skylight Hotel spent USD 36 million on the project with the goal of serving 25 million people per year. The hotel is situated in Bole Road, Bole district in Addis Ababa [1] [2] In 2023, it opened a 651-room expansion costing $155 million, bringing the room total to 1,024 and making the hotel the largest in Africa. [3]
The design of the site resembles two hands in embrace, symbolising Africa–China relations, [2] and includes both traditional African art and modern pan-African symbology, with the height of the 99.9 m (328 ft) main tower a reference to the adoption of the Sirte Declaration founding the African Union on 9 September 1999. [4]
Ethiopian architecture continued to expand from the Aksumite style, but also incorporating new traditions with the expansion of the Ethiopian state. Styles incorporated more wood and rounder structures in commoner's architecture in the center of the country and the south, and these stylistic influencies were manifested in the slow construction ...
A symbol of continental unity since 1961, Africa Hall in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has undergone a sweeping restoration to consolidate its legacy for future generations.
ETG Designers and Consultants S.C. (Amharic: ኢቲጂ ዲዛይነሮች እና አማካሪዎች አ.ማ.) formerly known as ETG Designers and Consultants PLC, is an architectural design and consulting firm founded in 1996 by Eshetu T. Gelan. Its headquarter is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was founded in 1996.
The Sheraton Addis is the only hotel in Ethiopia to have a water treatment plant using an ultra-violet water sterilization system, which ensures sterilization and bacteria free purification of water. It has a number of generators, meaning that the hotel is never affected by the power cuts and load shedding that plague Addis Ababa. [2]
Hilton Addis (Amharic: ሂልተን አዲስ) is a private international hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia owned by Hilton Worldwide.It was opened during the Emperor Haile Selassie regime in 1969, after a 50-year management contract signed between the Hilton Worldwide and the Ethiopian government that would proscribe other branding outside Worldwide permission.
The Taitu Hotel was built in 1905 or 1906 (1898 in the Ethiopian calendar) in the middle of the city (Piazza), is the first hotel in Ethiopia. Taitu Betul (1851–1918), an Ethiopian Empress and the wife of Emperor Menelik II , established this hotel to provide foreign guests a place to rest and dine.