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Standard Bank Centre: Exterior · This is the Standard bank centre in the city of Johannesburg South Africa
1/2 · Exterior · This is the Standard bank centre in the city of Johannesburg South AfricaPhoto: Johannesburg Heritage Foundation · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Standard Bank Centre: Exterior · View roughly South-Southwest from the Hillbrow Tower in 1988
2/2 · Exterior · View roughly South-Southwest from the Hillbrow Tower in 1988Photo: Hmvh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · This is the Standard bank centre in the city of Johannesburg South AfricaPhoto 2: Exterior · View roughly South-Southwest from the Hillbrow Tower in 1988

Office & tower · Late modernism

Standard Bank Centre

Hubert Petschnigg · Johannesburg, South Africa · 1970

Key featuresFloors hung in groups from cantilevered platforms on a central core, built from the top down.

Architect
Hubert Petschnigg
Place
Johannesburg, South Africa
Year
1970
Typology
Office & tower
Movement
Late modernism
Region
Africa
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