Carlton Center - Johannesburg, South Africa
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S 26° 12.369 E 028° 02.816
35J E 604594 N 7101064
At 223 meters (732 ft), the Carlton Centre is the tallest building in Africa, about 40m shy of featuring on the world’s top 100 skyscrapers list.
Waymark Code: WMJJC1
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Date Posted: 11/24/2013
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The Carlton Centre was the tallest building in the southern hemisphere when completed and is still the tallest building in Africa. The view from the Top of Africa, the 50th floor of the building, is a popular tourist attraction.
The centre complex was once home to the five-star, 30-storey Carlton Hotel, which was popular with the rich and famous. Former United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former president of France François Mitterand, current US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and singers Whitney Houston and Mick Jagger count among the hotel’s famous guests. Urban decay in the inner city in the 1990s took its toll on the hotel, which shut its doors in 1997 after nearly 25 years of operation.
The Carlton Centre has 50 floors. It is linked to the defunct Carlton Hotel by a below-ground shopping centre with over 180 shops as well as an ice skating rink all set below an above-ground public plaza.
For a bird’s-eye view of Johannesburg, the Carlton Centre is the place to go. Visitors to the centre can enjoy a panoramic view of the City of Gold from the Top of Africa, as the topmost floor of the building is known.
The coordinates were taken at the entrance to the Garden Pavilion Shopping Center on Main Street.
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