{"id":365904,"date":"2026-01-12T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365904\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:47:08","slug":"africas-incredible-new-tallest-building-almost-done-in-blow-for-egypt-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365904\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa’s incredible new tallest building almost done in blow for Egypt | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa’s incredible new multi-million-pound skyscraper will transform the skyline of a major city when it completes this year, taking a record title from Egypt<\/a> in the process. Once finished, it will become the continent’s tallest building, surpassing Egypt’s Iconic Tower by just 21 metres.<\/p>\n

The 77-story skyscraper will soon stand 421 metres above the city of Abidjan, the bustling economic capital and largest city in the Ivory Coast<\/a>. Following the methodically named towers A to E, which were constructed in the early 1980s, Tour F (Tower F) will become the sixth skyscraper in the city’s administrative district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some 50 years may seem a long time to wait to complete the sixth piece of the puzzle, but the building has been in the city’s urban development plans<\/a> for the entire time.<\/p>\n

However, the Ivory Coast has experienced major political upheavals and civil wars in 2002 and 2010, making this completion ever more significant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Designed by Lebanese Ivorian architect Pierre Fakhoury, the building represents economic confidence, while the angled planes of the building’s facets proudly represent identity, intended to evoke a stylised African mask.<\/p>\n

The supertall skyscraper<\/a> is being built for mixed-use office space in a city with just 6.3million inhabitants, as part of an initiative to centralize state services in the Plateau district, with expected completion around 2026.<\/p>\n

Egypt had previously held the record for Africa’s tallest building with the Iconic Tower<\/a> in its New Administrative Capital, which stands at almost 400 metres, about 90 metres taller than the Shard in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has 77 floors, mostly for office use, and is one of 20 towers being built as part of the central business district in the new capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Africa’s incredible new multi-million-pound skyscraper will transform the skyline of a major city when it completes this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[139961,139959,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,464,97090,139962,139963,139960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-365904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-abidjan","tag-africa-section","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-infrastructure","tag-ivory-coast","tag-pierre-fakhoury","tag-tallest-building-in-africa","tag-tour-f","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}