Gaddafi Tower-Mixed Use-60F-Dakar-Senegal

The Gaddafi Tower, under construction in Dakar, Senegal will be 60-storeys or about 250m, which will make it the tallest skyscraper in Africa, taller than even the 34-year old Carlton Centre in central Johannesburg, which is 50-storeys and 223m. Here is the story I got from News24.com (Naspers). Good going Muammar Gaddafi!

Libya to build 'Gaddafi Tower'
06/04/2006 14:32 - (SA)

Dakar - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade laid the foundation stone on Wednesday of a $250m tower block in Senegal to be called "Gaddafi Tower".

The project, entirely funded by a Libyan investment fund, would stretch over 48 000 square metres with a five-star hotel, a conference centre, offices and shops.

Abdoulaye Balde, executive director of the organisation of the Islamic Conference, speaking at the stone-laying ceremony, said: "This will be one of the major buildings in Africa."

The building would be in Dakar's downtown area opposite the historic island of Goree, a symbol of the colonial-era slave trade in Africa.

Gaddafi arrived in the West African state on Monday for a four-day official visit, coinciding with Senegal's April 4 Independence Day celebrations.

Both Wade and Gaddafi were proponents of pan-Africanism.

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«Khadafi va nous laisser 1000 milliards de francs CFA lors de sa visite à Dakar », déclare Ahmed Khalifa Niasse


Le Guide libyen Mouammar Kadhafi est attendu à Dakar lundi dans la soirée pour une visite officielle de quatre jours au Sénégal, a appris la PANA de source officielle. De cette visite des investissements de pas « moins de 1000 milliards de francs Cfa sont attendus », annonce Ahmedh Khalifa Niasse interrogé par la radio Rfm à Dakar. « Khadafi va investir cette année cinq milliards de dollars provenant des plus valus du pétrole. Khadafi va poser la première pierre de la tour Khadafi haute de 67 étages à Dakar », a dit en substance Ahmed Khalifa Niasse.

What a stupid plan of Khadaffi, he should make the tallest in Morocco!

67 floors in Dakar, that´s HUUUUGGGGEEEE I AM TRYING TO GET SOME PHOTOS BUT IN VAIN

ABIDJAN THE INDISPUTED CAPITAL OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICA WON´T BE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT NEWS

why is abidjan "THE INDISPUTED CAPITAL OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICA "?

Belgiumguy, visit my thread on Abidjan and you ´ll find all teh anwers: no capital in francophone africa captures all that Abidjan captured.

haha sweet news but the telkom hillbrow tower is still the tallest in africa....but this will atleast bring more competition and i like that its in senegal as it will go with the dubai style twin towers

the hillbrow tower is not a skyscraper. and it's not the tallest structure in africa either - it is the eskom's duvha power station with 300m (the smoke stacks have stairs and lifts inside). the carlton centre was the tallest skyscraper.

ya ya i know the hillbrow tower is not a skyscraper note "the tower bit" ;) but ya ur right the eskoms duvha thingie is the tallest but the hillbrow tower has offices in it the eskom on is just a long pipe

wheres this eskom thing? is it the one in Soweto?

nooo!!! its in sasolburg i think

oh ok, Sasolburg, oh the Eskom powerstation there, my cuz should work there. I'll ask him if he has pics of it.

nooo!!! its in sasolburg i think

Here are some other South African structures that are taller than the Hillbrow tower:

301m Secunda - SASOL Synthetic Fuels Steam Plant 3
300m Witbank - Two smoke-stacks of the New Duvha power station
275m Kendal - Kendal Power Station
275m Kriel - Matla Power Station
270m Johannesburg - Hillbrow Tower

The CN Tower (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, at 553.33 metres. The Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand measures 328 meters and is the tallest tower in the Southern Hemisphere. The hillbrow tower is dwarfed by these two towers. Would love to see some pictures of the Secunda and Witbank structures, anybody have any? Maybe somebody should add a mask to the top of the Secunda tower, only just over 27m is required to make it the highest in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Sentech Tower (also known as the Brixton Tower) also in Johannesburg is only 239m.

But the tallest of them all is the Resturant on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town. Its over 1200m high! And its held up in the air by two cables balancing on top of a big rock. :)

http://www.tropicalisland.de/CPT%20Cape%20Town%20upper%20cableway%20station%20on%20Table%20Mountain.jpg

^^ :lol: LOL

mmm man thats way up shame that ive neva been there even though i lived in ct for 15years

well that pic is of the cable station not the restaurant!!!!!!!!

true, last time I went there, they had a steers, I heard they got spur there now?

well that pic is of the cable station not the restaurant!!!!!!!!

Restauant is just behind it! I should have said the cable station.

Not sure if there is a Spur up there now! I don't think so! Think it may still be a steers! Don't go up their much! Not worth it paying all that money to go to the Steers when I have one down the road from me! :)

^^Do they still have those squirells or what ever those things are there? I went ther whe I was 6, I nearly die trying to catch one of those things! I jumped over the railing onto the rocks to try & touch it.................my dad wasnt very pleased.

the best way to get up the mountain is to climb it!

^^what the hell! climb? & ignore all that hard labour that went into building that cableway! u know ppl died putting it up! & you go and disgrace them & climb!

how rude!

is great news...but sorry to say Gaddafi Tower ain't going to be the tallest skyscraper in áfrica...it will be in angola and matt know it very well...with 70 floors and 3-2-5 meteres high....i love akon but sorry senegal..but is a good start

is great news...but sorry to say Gaddafi Tower ain't going to be the tallest skyscraper in áfrica...it will be in angola and matt know it very well...with 70 floors and 3-2-5 meteres high....i love akon but sorry senegal..but is a good start

i agree but it will be some time most building in development in angola under 150m but it's just a matter of time

Where on earth is this thread coming from lol.

shit this is some old stuff

its nice being random once in a while :)

yo here is the Gaddafi Tower...If this is Gaddafi Tower is this one..yo this old man is ugly like s***....:hahaha:I think he should do some plastic :laugh:..I gotta tell you is very very nice I love this design...P-R-E-T-T-Y

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6483/tourkhadafi.jpg

and here it is the angola tower...very ugly let's hope that they are redone it...

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7316/torredeangola4.jpg

lets come back to Earth for a minute, Carlton centre is the tallest building in Africa for the foresable future cos none of these will happen.
In fact South Africa would have had tallest probably since 1800s I would imagine and I wonder if someone has done a timeline of African tallest?
what was before carlton? I think Old Mutiual in CT was tallest at some point

The Pyramids were the tallest for most of this millenium

lets come back to Earth for a minute, Carlton centre is the tallest building in Africa for the foresable future cos none of these will happen.
In fact South Africa would have had tallest probably since 1800s I would imagine and I wonder if someone has done a timeline of African tallest?
what was before carlton? I think Old Mutiual in CT was tallest at some point

Actually, quite a few of the buildings in Johannesburg were 'the tallest in Africa' at some stage eg. Barbican, Ansteys, Astor Mansions etc.

As always, pipe dreams that will probably never materialize...
Once again, I think that most of the African continent should focus more on building hospitals, schools and other infrastructure to support its citizens, rather then coming up with wild schemes just to prove that they can build some odd 70 flr tower.
Take for instance Angola, Togos goalkeeper was shot, and they had to airlift him to SA to be treated for his wounds. First take care of the basics...
Oh, and by the way that Angolan tower is hideous!!

The Pyramids were the tallest for most of this millenium

Yup, was just about to say that. SA entered the picture very late.

Yup, was just about to say that. SA entered the picture very late.

of course the pyramids were tallest gloabally from 2750BC to 1300AD and is 146.6m Im talking about what surpassed it and since then what has been highest in Africa.
lets work backwards, Carlton was tallest since 1973 at 223m, What was tallest in SA/Africa before that but taller than 146.6m?
Ansteys, barbican etc are all shorter and even Old Mutual in CT is shorter (they may all qualify as SA's tallest but not Africas tallest).

I dont think there is a taller building in SA than pyramids before 1973?

help anyone?

you mean the last millenium?

last millenium what? dont get the question

As always, pipe dreams that will probably never materialize...
Once again, I think that most of the African continent should focus more on building hospitals, schools and other infrastructure to support its citizens, rather then coming up with wild schemes just to prove that they can build some odd 70 flr tower.
Take for instance Angola, Togos goalkeeper was shot, and they had to airlift him to SA to be treated for his wounds. First take care of the basics...
Oh, and by the way that Angolan tower is hideous!!

angola tower sucks no doubt a bout that...I'm angolan but you are getting off topic here...since the war over...you guys never heard nothin more 'till this togo attack..I'm not saying that it's pretty...but this situation could happen everywhere in the world...nobody is safe...and angola is building very nice hospitals and no longer people will need to go to SA...stop throwing this to our face..we suppost be united and not separate...the staff that is puttin together the world cup ashamed angola to the world...I saw all the enterviews...it's very bad 4 us...SA defend them selfs of something that didn't happen in they country, this what makes me piss..yes I saw it, and he said that Angola was at war...SA has many problems too bunch of violence ...among other stuff...but this is lesson to learn in who we trust...I'm sorry everybody to get out off topic

last millenium what? dont get the question

The 3rd millenium in which we are currently in began on january 1st 2001. From january 1st 1001 to december 31st 2000 was the 2nd millenium.

angola tower sucks no doubt a bout that...I'm angolan but you are getting off topic here...since the war over...you guys never heard nothin more 'till this togo attack..I'm not saying that it's pretty...but this situation could happen everywhere in the world...nobody is safe...and angola is building very nice hospitals and no longer people will need to go to SA...stop throwing this to our face..we suppost be united and not separate...the staff that is puttin together the world cup ashamed angola to the world...I saw all the enterviews...it's very bad 4 us...SA defend them selfs of something that didn't happen in they country, this what makes me piss..yes I saw it, and he said that Angola was at war...SA has many problems too bunch of violence ...among other stuff...but this is lesson to learn in who we trust...I'm sorry everybody to get out off topic

Hey Evany, take it easy... Im not throwing nothing at your face or at anybody for that matter!
The Togo situation was just an example, nothing else.
I simply stated the truth... as africans, we should first focus in improving every inhabitants quality of life in this beautiful continent, then we can dream about 70stry towers, OK?

Evany, i will ask again, please leave the Angolan stuff in the Angolan thread

Hopefully this new scraper will wake up Joburg in building a new tallest. When on good earth will the giant awake?

Evany, i will ask again, please leave the Angolan stuff in the Angolan thread


I'M SORRY GUYS AND dysan1

The new BEE billionaires should build something great for the city. Can someone tell me what on earth are they doing with all their cash.

shopping for jets

shopping for jets

With so much money I would build myself a bling skyscraper or just revamp many in the innercity.

Gaddafi or whatever his name
he is just an idiot

Gaddafi or whatever his name
he is just an idiot

do you know who he is?

do you know who he is?

:lol: :lol:

his the man

http://creativemediaalliance.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/qadhafi2_1.jpg

Carlton Cente is on the rating section today going against another skyscraper. Let's go vote for our icon.