The Carlton office tower reaches a height of 223m above Main Street's pavement. Designed by New York architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the sprawling Carlton Centre complex in downtown Johannesburg was a flagship development for Anglo American and SAB. Planning for the mammoth project began in the early 1960s, when a land parcel spanning five city blocks
BUILDING AN ICON
Sep 30, 2022
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