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The Mutual Building was the tallest building in Cape Town for 23 years, before it was overtaken by the Sanlam Centre (Naspers Centre) in 1962. [3] After it was completed in 1972 and overtook the Trust Bank Centre (ABSA Centre) which is now called (The Foreshore Place) after being turned into a residential building, 1 Thibault Square (BP Centre) was the tallest building in the city for the next ...
Portside is a 139-metre-tall (456 ft) building in Cape Town, South Africa.Completed in 2014, it is the city's tallest building [3] and, at the time of completion, was Cape Town's first significant skyscraper developed in the central business district (CBD) in 15 years.
[5] The Trust Bank Building was tied with the Johannesburg Sun Hotel as the tallest building in Africa from 1970 to 1973. Portside Tower: 139 m (456 ft) 32: 2014: Cape Town [6] Tallest building in Cape Town. [7] Standard Bank Centre: 139 m (456 ft) 34: 1968: Johannesburg [8] The Standard
Lagos, Nigeria Nairobi, Kenya Cairo, Egypt Cape Town, South Africa Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This article ranks the tallest skyscrapers on the African continent by height. . Initially, only a small number of major financial and commercial centres boasted large skylines, such as Cairo, Johannesburg, New Alamein, Lagos and
The city’s tallest building, Taipei 101, is the launching pad for the vibrant, vertical fireworks show. ... Cape Town is one of the most beautifully situated cities in Africa and the world. New ...
The skyline of the city of Cape Town has changed significantly since the Mutual Building was constructed. Even from its highest point of easy access, the Mutual Building View is now dwarfed by the more modern buildings in the Cape Town central business district. In the modern skyline the Mutual Building is lost in a maze of tall buildings.
The building is 117 metres (384 ft) tall. It consists of a four-storey podium and a 29-storey tower block characterised by a concrete central core. [ 4 ] Its continuous glass curtain wall façades were the first of their kind in Cape Town.
University of Cape Town buildings (7 P) University of the Western Cape (1 C, 7 P) ... List of tallest buildings in Cape Town; M. Maclear's Beacon; Mandela Rhodes ...