From a beach town to the world’s tallest residential skyscraper
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Ponte City, Africa’s tallest residential skyscraper in Berea, Johannesburg, was built in 1975 by Manfred Hermer as luxurious housing for apartheid South Africa’s wealthy white population. Until the 1990s, the Hillbrow area was a vibrant cultural hub, but as the middle class moved out, the building became a dangerous slum, overrun with crime and poverty, housing over 10,000 residents including gang leaders and drug lords. In the early 2000s, the Kempston Group renovated Ponte City, evicting crimi
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🏢 A vertical city with a dark past. Ponte City towers over Johannesburg as Africa’s tallest residential building—a circular high-rise that’s been abandoned, revived, and mythologized for decades. Once a symbol of urban decay, it now stands as a powerful reminder of how cities can fall… and rise again. #PonteCity #AfricanArchitecture #UrbanLegends #Johannesburg #CityStories #ArchitecturalIcons | Eyebiokin Kenny Peter
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