ADDIS ABABA | Commercial Bank of Ethiopia HQ | Office | 52 F | Approved

[Skyliner123]

Kata-2,
Yoniii,

On second thought, I think ya'll win!

[yosiast]

Originally Posted by Yoniii

It looks like something from the Flintstones. It's slightly better at night, but I don't like it either..

Haha...so true, tasteless piece of work from Fred Flintstone.

[Kata-2]

Originally Posted by yosiast

Haha...so true, tasteless piece of work from Fred Flintstone.

tasteless indeed. if they choose this design, in 4-5 years it will be crowned as the ugliest building in the city, similar to the one I saw in minneapolis.

[arzaranh]

well it looks like i'm the odd man out. i think that that design is way better than the one they did pick.

[rasandrew]

is known throughout the city planning idea and the vision of European buildings. design required at least in the initial idea must be left to the Ethiopian architects who will later be joined by foreign designers and editors work.
This is my idea

[Skyliner123]

[lady gaga]

All nice but what happening with this and chun hui hotel tower they were approved long time ago

[yosef]

this is the latest thing Ive heard about this project b.g.:

Originally Posted by yosef

Interesting article here also.


New building height regulation for Addis

[FKebede]

[QUOTE=Skyliner123;88150509]


SkyLiner,,,, is this design approved or its just one of the designs they are looking at? They are just taking far too long to decide which one they want,,, personally I like this one its simple to look at. I think it will fit in nicely in Churchill Rd.

[Skyliner123]

F Kebede,

That is a good question. I would have to assume that this is just another failed bid since the bank is now seeking to build a 52 story building. I completely agree that they are taking to darn long!

[skytrax]

[Simfan34]

These are all rejected proposals. It would be great if we could all have them built. Wouldn't it be lovely if we got a supertall?

[abnet]

6.4 billion birr(369 million US Dollar) offered to build CBE headquarter.

Saturday, 03 March 2012 00:00 By HAYAL ALEMAYEHU

International contractors’ offers to build the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) have turned out to be the largest ever in the real estate industry when the financial proposals of the companies opened last Saturday. Of the five runners-up vying with each other to clinch the rare lucrative building project, two were automatically dismissed as they score below 70 percent in their respective proposals, according to sources close to the projects.

Of the left three companies, China Jiangizu International offered the largest sum of over 6.4 billion to build what the bankers coined as iconic tower that will symbolize and serve as East Africa’s banking giant headquarters. China Jiangizu International was followed by a peer company, China State Construction, which made the second biggest offer of over 4.5 billion birr. Of the three runner-ups, the lower offer of over three billion birr was made by the unprecedented Dubai-based construction company, Associated Construction and Investment (ASCON), where expectations were rife “it will be a Chinese company again” to make the lowest offer for the rather grand building project in the country.

The other two disqualified contenders were Shakoji Palonji Middle East, an Indian company and Arab Contractors, an Egyptian firm for which the Development Bank of Egypt office in Ethiopia was lobbying with the concerned government bodies to let the company grip the grand project.

While the “design and build” bidders financial proposal had finally come to light after a “rigorous” evaluation of the technical proposals of the respective companies, there is little known about the “contract administration and supervision” bidders who were supposed to have been selected long ago and participated in evaluation of the “design and build” bidders, according to sources.

CBE has initially awarded the design work for the headquarters project to Universal Consultant, a local consultancy firm and HENN Architecten, a German company. However, an unprecedented dispute between the two has led the project to lag one year behind schedule, CBE’s president Bekalu Zeleke had told The Reporter earlier. After winning the contract by beating some 20 contenders, the two parties found themselves sinking into an unending row over benefit-sharing from the project before launching it in the first place.“It had been a challenging task to mediate between the two parties as the dispute involved benefit-sharing from the project,” Bekalu said then. “However, we were finally able to bring the two parties to come to terms.”

Yet, when the financial proposals of the bidders opened last Saturday, it was not attended by the would-be supervisors of the project, according to sources close to the project.

The bidders were required to include in their proposal conceptual design the building comprising of a model, and schematic designs; general experience, demonstrating a minimum of eight years of experience in the business; peak annual turnover of design and construction works for the last five years; particular design and construction experience of the firm; financial capability; experience in at least one design-build project where the minimum required annual volume of design and construction works for the successful bidder in any of the last five years shall be USD 100 Million for foreign contractors and USD 40 million for local firms, among others.

While the original designers of the building came up with a 50-plus storey building measuring some 200 meters high, the height of latest design, whose image has yet to be drafted, is limited to a maximum of 185.50 meters (46-storey, excluding the extra height of machine rooms for elevators, antenna height and the like) in accordance with the regulation of the Addis Ababa City Administration.

The winner of the lucrative project is expected to be disclosed in a month’s time, if all goes according to plan.

Originally expected to cost from one to two billion birr, the headquarters project consists of accommodation for all functions of the future head office, staff amenities and commercial centre, rental offices and parking space. The new facility will be built on a 10,528 sq.m. plot of land located adjacent to Ethiopia Hotel.

The design is expected to represent CBE’s status as a world-class bank in a manner that will portray strength and claim an imposing presence in the skyline of the central business district, according to the design program of the project.

In business for close to seven decades and currently operating over 500 braches nationwide, CBE has during the first six months of the current fiscal year seen its profit soaring to an all time high of 3.7 billion birr.

http://www.thereporterethiopia.com/N...ld-cbe-hq.html

[lady gaga]

Finally a positive news can't wait for this to gdt built

[Simfan34]

I thought it was supposed to be taller, not shorter! This is a disgrace. And I hope it goes to the Dubai firm. I'm sick of the Chinese getting every contract. If that happens they'll strongarm CBE into getting a Chinese contractor, workers, etc. I doubt the Dubai firm would do that. On preconceptions alone, I'd be willing to put money on ASCON's design being the best- and it's the cheapest.

Yet again, CSC has done some major projects and a significant presence in the US.

EDIT: Looking at ASCON's website, their work looks quite good.

[yosef]

hmm, so its to be 46 stories now? I hope that is a mistake, I wish it stayed at the 52 or even 50.

although they do mention an antenna.

looks like the thread title may need a change yet again.

[Simfan34]

Don't think so, boss. They specifically have a height limit, which they plan to hit. So we now have a height. I'm concerned for the Chuan Hui thought- it's 264m!

[mike7743]

Why is there a height limit in Addis?

[Simfan34]

No idea. Terrible idea.

[Skyliner123]

Height limit?..I don't think we have the luxury for that. However, I do believe that I read somewhere on a previous Reporter article about building heights having to correlate to the width of the adjacent roads. For example, the city's masterplan stipulates that the tallest buildings be built on the widest roads of the inner-city (e'g' Churchil, Bole, Mexico Adebabay, etc...). The future CBE HQ unfortunately is not on a major road juncture hence the building height is negatively affected by the city's masterplan.