{"id":693307,"date":"2026-01-13T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:26:22","slug":"africas-incredible-new-tallest-building-almost-done-in-blow-for-egypt-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693307\/","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":693308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[209358,43037,4021,4020,4022,77,6084,147379,209359,209360,209357,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-abidjan","9":"tag-africa-section","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-infrastructure","15":"tag-ivory-coast","16":"tag-pierre-fakhoury","17":"tag-tallest-building-in-africa","18":"tag-tour-f","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888257852733709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}