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The Amalgamated Banks of South Africa Tower (simply Absa Tower or ABSA Tower) is an office skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is 31 storeys tall. It is also the headquarters of Absa Group Limited .
Absa Bank Limited is a 100 percent subsidiary of Absa Group Limited, the Pan African financial services conglomerate headquartered in South Africa, with subsidiaries in 12 African countries, whose total assets exceeded US$91 billion as at October 2019.
The tower was completed in 1970 [3] as the Heerengracht Hotel. It was later purchased by the predecessor to the ABSA banking group and converted to offices, known as ABSA Centre . In 2019, the building was redeveloped as premium mixed-use residential and office space and renamed Foreshore Place .
Architecture admirers will enjoy the mix of Roman, Moorish, Gothic, and Renaissance towers, walls, buildings, and squares throughout the city, which is a designated UNESCO World Heritage site ...
It was the first building in South Africa taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza (138.5 m (454 ft)), which had been the continent's tallest structure from its completion ca. 2600 BC until overtaken by Cairo Tower in 1961. Southern Life Centre: 138 m (453 ft) 30: 1973: Johannesburg [9] Monte Blanc: 133 m (436 ft) 40: 1985: Durban [10] ABSA Tower ...
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Marble Towers: 152 m (499 ft) 32: 1973: Johannesburg CBD: For a brief period in 1973, this was the tallest building in Africa. Marble Towers was the first building in South Africa to surpass the ancient and early mediaeval height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt (146.6 m (481 ft)). Sandton City Office Tower: 141 m (463 ft) 22: 1973: Sandton ...
Cortina d'Ampezzo's elite-filled history. Cortina d'Ampezzo has a lengthy history of appealing to the elite. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wealthy travelers from England, Germany, and ...