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- Ponte City - Wikipedia
Ponte City [1] is a skyscraper in the Berea district of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567 6 ft), and was the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa for 48 years, until overtaken in 2023 by Building D01 , in Egypt 's New Administrative Capital
- Exploring Johannesburg’s Infamous Ponte City - 2oceansvibe
Johannesburg’s infamous Ponte City tower may be Africa’s tallest apartment building but it was also South Africa’s symbol of inner-city dilapidation for a long time Everybody has a story about the 54-storey toilet-paper tube skyscraper, which quickly turned it into Jozi’s centre for haunting lore
- The Ponte Saga - The Heritage Portal
Norman Ohler’s book Ponte City describes life in the building He claims it’s fiction, but quotes newspaper articles and police reports He describes meetings of drug lords on the 39th floor; police raids and guns being seized Add to that the degradation to be seen everywhere in Johannesburg
- How Johannesburgs Ponte City Came to Symbolize the Apocalypse - The . . .
Ponte City, Africa’s tallest apartment block, is a mainstay of movies about the end of the world—but it was once an apartheid-era architectural triumph A view of the 54-story Ponte Tower
- Ponte City | Online Only | n+1 - nplusonemag. com
Ponte City is an apartment block on the outskirts of central Johannesburg It’s commandingly hideous, in the manner perfected in the early ’70s: a vast cylindrical barrack, fifty-four stories tall, made vaster still by the ridge on which it’s built and the enormous red billboard that glows, siren-like, from its top
- South African skyscraper crumbled into ruin and then bounced back
The iconic Ponte City building in Johannesburg was once the tallest building in South Africa, but within a few decades, it became overrun by gangs, drugs, and prostitution Today, it is making a comeback
- Ponte City - The Urban Slum - Architect Russell
Ponte City rises 55 stories and is 173 m (567 6 ft) high, still making it the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa When the building opened in 1975, Ponte City, was considered a prestigious and luxury place to live with apartments for the wealthy because of the breath taking views across the center of Johannesburg
- Ponte City – a South African landmark – rises again
Hijacked by gangs and buried in trash, Africa's tallest apartment building gets a new look: out with the orange shag rugs, in with "Global Fusion " As the cylinder turns: Ponte City is a
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