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The Johannesburg Central Business District, commonly called Johannesburg CBD, is one of the main business centres of Johannesburg, South Africa.It is the densest collection of skyscrapers in Africa, however, due to white flight and urban blight, many of the buildings are unoccupied as tenants have left for more secure locations in the Northern Suburbs, in particular Sandton and Rosebank.
Johannesburg CBD [citation needed] KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel Tower 1: 140 m (460 ft) 40: 1970: Johannesburg CBD [2] Mothballed since 1998; under its previous name, the Johannesburg Sun Hotel, it was tied with the Trust Bank Building as the tallest building in Africa from 1970 to 1973. Trust Bank Building: 140 m (460 ft) 31: 1970: Johannesburg CBD
The challenge for the designers - the German architect Helmut Hentrich (1905–2001) and the Austrian architect Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), who planned the skyscraper in collaboration with the British-Danish-Norwegian engineer Ove Arup (1895–1988) - was to find a spacious square in the crowded Johannesburg CBD to anchor an office ...
Johannesburg's main railway station, bus terminal, and minibus taxi centre are all located in the inner city. The suburbs close to the CBD, in particular Joubert Park, Hillbrow, and Berea, have a large number of high-rise apartment blocks. These areas were formerly extremely desirable; however, due to the increase in crime, the housing stock ...
This is a list of suburbs in Johannesburg, South Africa. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A. Johannesburg Region A (56 ...
It was the highest office block in the City until the 1920s, making it a very prominent and landmark building in Johannesburg CBD; It is an outstanding example of a building where additions made 50 years later blend sympathetically with the original building; The National Bank Building forms a grouping with the Old Corner House
Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on farmland called Newlands that lay on the original farms called Waterval and Middlefontein. [2]: 279 The suburb was established in May 1918 by the Johannesburg Town Council as an area for black residents and called it Newlands Location.
The University of Johannesburg, colloquially known as UJ, is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa.The University of Johannesburg was established on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. [12]