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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Context · Hillbrow and the Hillbrow Tower
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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Exterior
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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Exterior
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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Exterior
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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Detail · View due South from the Hillbrow Tower in 1972
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Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower): Context
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Infrastructure · Brutalism

Hillbrow Tower (Telkom Joburg Tower)

South African Posts & Telecommunications (client); designers not credited in sources · Johannesburg, South Africa · 1971

Key features269 m concrete telecom tower, Africa's tallest, with public floors and a revolving restaurant near the top.

Architect
South African Posts & Telecommunications (client); designers not credited in sources
Place
Johannesburg, South Africa
Year
1971
Typology
Infrastructure
Movement
Brutalism
Region
Africa
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