Built in 1975 and designed by Manfred Hermer as the height of luxurious living in South Africa, the continent’s tallest residential building soon became a notorious vertical slum, filled with crime and poverty, its signature hollow core re-purposed as a trash dump and a suicide drop.
Ponte City Apartments
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