GAUTENG STYLE

As Cape Town and Durban also the third most important urban area, the Gauteng, has a characteristic identity. In the middle there is Johannesburg and next to it there is Pretoria with its Voortrekker Monument and the great Union Buildings (1912) by herbert Baker, example of modernism architecture.

Between 1960 and 1980 a new architectonical style developed to react to isolation of the country due to apartheid. Evry important city of South Africa shows a great number of skyscraper.

the most significant example of this is the tower by Helmut Jahn built in Diagonal Street in Johannesburg.

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