The Schlesinger Building, also known as Wesbank Centre or Sanlam Centre, is a skyscraper in
Braamfontein,
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. It was built in 1965 to a height of . It has 21 floors.
The building is named for John Schlesinger, a Johannesburg businessman who was also one of the first major art collectors in the city.
Doreen E. Greig, who was the first female president-in-chief of the
South African Institute of Architects,
described the building in her book as 'an immense building' with a 'sombre and monumental' aspect, which derived from the reflection of grey-green glass
sheathing. Its facade are swollen and its vertical aluminium mullions are balanced by the horizontal glass
spandrels, which also less obscure than the
fenestration
Fenestration may refer to:
* Fenestration (architecture), the design, construction, or presence of openings in a building
* Used in relation to fenestra in anatomy, medicine and biology
* Fenestration, holes in the rudder
A rudder is a primar ...
.
See also
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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 ...
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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 ...
References
Citations
Books
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External links
Amethyst: Johannesburg Landmarks Retrieved 11 February 2008.
Buildings and structures completed in 1965
Skyscraper office buildings in Johannesburg
Office buildings completed in 1965
20th-century architecture in South Africa
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