Trust Bank Building is a
skyscraper in the
Central Business District of
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
,
South Africa
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. It was built in 1970 to a height of 140 metres. The building is the former head office of Trust Bank of
South Africa
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, and as such has one of the largest
bank vault
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s in
South Africa
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. The building was sold in February 2003 for
Rand
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6.4 million (
USD
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$640,000).
Like most skyscrapers in Johannesburg the height is 140m which is the same height as
KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel
The Johannesburg Sun Hotel is an abandoned twin-tower skyscraper hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.
History
The smaller 22-storey rear tower was built in 1970 as The Tollman Towers hotel, owned by the prominent ...
,
Michelangelo Towers
The Michelangelo Towers is a hotel building in Sandton, South Africa. It is a prominent structure in the Sandton skyline and is one of South Africa's elite hotels, having accommodated guests such as former United States President Barack Obama, Op ...
,
ABSA Tower and
Standard Bank Centre which are all 140m tall.
See also
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Carlton Centre
The Carlton Centre is a 50-storey skyscraper and shopping centre located on Commissioner Street in central Johannesburg, South Africa. At , it is the third tallest building in Africa after The Leonardo, also in Johannesburg, and the Iconic T ...
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Ponte City Apartments
Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Berea suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow. It was built in 1975 to a height of , making it the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa. The 55-storey building is cylindrical, with an ...
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Hillbrow Tower
The Hillbrow Tower (formerly JG Strijdom Tower) is a tall tower located in the suburb of Hillbrow in Johannesburg, South Africa. At , it has been the tallest structure and tower in Africa for 50 years, and it was also the tallest structure in t ...
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Standard Bank Centre
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List of tallest buildings in South Africa
South Africa is the most structurally and economically developed nation on the African continent. As such, its major cities have experienced construction booms that most other cities of similar size in Africa have not. Advanced developmen ...
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List of tallest buildings in Africa
This article ranks the tallest buildings on the African continent by height. Initially, only a small number of major financial and commercial centers boasted large skylines, such as Cairo, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. However, since ...
External links
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Skyscraper office buildings in Johannesburg
Office buildings completed in 1970
20th-century architecture in South Africa