- The fifty-four-storey Ponte City building dominates Johannesburg’s skyline, its huge blinking advertising crown visible from Soweto in the south to Sandton in...
- The 54-storey building in Johannesburg, built in the 1970s, is the tallest residential building on the continent, and subject of a new photobook. alt. Ponte City.
- Ponte City: A Portrait of Johannesburg - Photographs by Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse | LensCulture.
- By the 1990s, many gangs moved into the building and it became extremely unsafe.
- Ponte City was symbolic of the crime and urban decay.
- (Image credit: Flickr user flowcomm)Ponte City, also called Ponte Tower, is a 54-story cylinder of apartments in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- The tour, which is about an hour & costs R350 pp, will be guided by friendly & knowledgable Dlala Nje volunteers/ residents of Ponte City.
- Ponte City The Ponte building was built in 1975 as anenormous cylindrical structure. ... Cup 2010, the momentum of the inner-city clean-up had slowly fizzled out.
- When built, Ponte City was seen as an extremely desirable address due to its views over all of Johannesburg and its surroundings.
- Ponte City is a brutalist-style architectural sight to behold. Built in 1975 to a height of 565 feet (173 meters) it held the title the tallest residential building in Africa for...