Abstract

The Term SDGs

Selected Architectural Examples of The Social, Economic, and Political transitioning city of Johannesburg Between 1970 to 2000. 

Johannesburg is the capital of the Gauteng province and the financial hub of South Africa. Founded in 1886, the city is located in the Witwatersrand region, which has vast gold deposits. The town experienced rapid growth as the gold deposits were exploited, and is now South Africa's largest urban centre. As a result, the Johannesburg area has a wide variety of architecture, from early Art Nouveau to Postmodern buildings.[1] Hillbrow, for example, contains many buildings constructed since the 1950s, including the Hillbrow Tower.

The 54 story Ponte Tower, designed in Brutalist architectural style as a standing cylindrical tube with a hollow center, began life in 1975 as luxury apartments for the privileged class of Johannesburg.  Whites occupied the outward-facing apartments, their servants relegated to the spaces facing the inner core.  If you were South African, wealthy and had aspirations, Ponte City as it was first known was the place to be.

The Carlton Hotel is a historic hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It opened in 1972 as part of the enormous Carlton Centre complex, and has been closed since 1998. Its closure has been attributed to the decay of the Central Business District, resulting in a severe crime wave and the flight of the city's corporate offices north to areas like Sandton and Rosebank. This created a plethora of vacant rooms that were unable to be filled. The main hotel tower was closed in December 1997.