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Financial district of Cape Town as seen from the summit of Signal Hill. This list of tallest buildings in Cape Town ranks completed buildings by height in the South African city of Cape Town, Western Cape, the second-largest city in South Africa. [1] Cape Town's tallest building is the Portside Tower, which stands at 139 m (456 ft); the tower ...
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.
The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of South Africa, and as such has one of the largest bank vaults in South Africa. The building was sold in February 2003 for Rand 6.4 million (USD $640.000), which may prompt the name to be changed to that of the new tenant.
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.
Murray & Roberts found a loop hole in the building restrictions on the mountainside, and built the base below the allowable development line, then built upward, above the line. With the suburbs of Devil's Peak , Vredehoek , Oranjezicht and Higgovale in the foreground, the unrestricted view enjoyed by residents of Disa Park can be appreciated
The Old Mutual business has a long history. In 1845 John Fairbairn (a Scot) founded "The Mutual Life Assurance Society of the Cape of Good Hope" in Cape Town.Over the next 100 years the business was to evolve significantly, changing its name in 1885 to the "South Africa Mutual Life Assurance Society", but becoming familiarly known simply as "The Old Mutual", so as to distinguish it from newer ...
1 Thibault Square, formally known as the LG Building and originally known as the "BP Centre", is a 126.5-metre (415 ft) modernist skyscraper on the European-style Thibault Square at the end of St George's Mall, Cape Town, South Africa. [2] [5] [6] Work on the building began in 1969 and was completed in 1972.
In 1864 the area was connected by railway upon the competition of the Cape Town to Wynberg line. [6] By the time of the 1875 census Rondebosch had a recorded population of 1,902 residents. The 1891 census recorded a population of 3,378, and by the time of the 1904 Cape census the area had a total population of 6,035, of whom 4,312 were recorded ...