Decaying Ponte City Apartments in South Africa : theCHIVE

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: The Ponte City Apartments is 173 m (567.6 ft) high, which makes it the tallest residential skyscraper in South Africa. The skyscraper was built in 1975 in the once cosmopolitan Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg.

: Hillbrow had been considered a fancy place until the criminal activity gradually turned the area into a gangland. By the end of the 90s many gangs moved into the Ponte City, devastating it and leaving a 5 stories high pile of debris in the “core.”

See the images below to get a feel for just how disgusting the waste is…

: Presently the building belongs to a private company and several projects of the renovation are slow to implement because of the lack of money. That is why Ponte City remains a giant symbol of the urban decay.

Category: Architecture, Creepy, FAIL, Travel

ACEY1987

So the inside has shitty people in it and trash, but it looks fine from the outside… Is this the new landfill? seems like a start.
Andrew

Terrible architecture and deserves its fate in my view, demolish please! Oh and maybe send the guys to do the Rotunda in Birmingham UK too!
greg

Toledo, Ohio is worse… Seriously
Andy Valentine

I smell an amazing paintball arena
MattKL

Christ, it looks like something out of a post-apocalyptic or cyberpunk movie.
Jerome

Apartheid left the uncivilised elements in charge, not prejudice, just evidenced.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1334291656 Adam Puente

Nothing gas and a match can't cure. Why try and rebuild it when the same thing is going to happen?
John

Sad – the Story of Africa..
haha

Still not as bad as Detroit
b money

Shoot a porno ther
ubdilly

Welcome to Africa, the drain on the world. Things never thrive and will never ever thrive. Should go back to apartheid. Should just bomb the place. No one wants to buy in hillbrow unless ur a crack addict on a binge.

http://iamawesome.com/ NeelsvanPK

I agree. In Apartheid nothing was as fucked as it is now.

http://www.facebook.com/lukhanyos Lukhanyo Sopotela

racist

Vanrensburg01

Ooooh talk about racism… If you can't deal with it you should just leave. You won't be missed.

Miagi-son

Johannesburg is a craphole. Cape Town for the WINNNNN!
stanjkof

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit !
r d

What the hell, Chive?
Now all of the already ignorant Americans will think SA is a shit hole.
Thanks for the false advertising, clowns
Michael

I live in South Africa and im sorry to say, but, all our city centre's look like that. Most people here stay out of the city centre's. all the new shopping centre's are built on the outskirts of town. the "good" area's move every 20 years cause everything you build will always get destroyed by crime. so we build, they take over and we move to another place and the cycle starts again.
Kmiller

I'm a South African and i know its hard on the eyes when you get close to it, but at night far away it is awesome. They really screwed up Hillbrow, what a shame it was beautiful once.
Sad Chivette

Instead of posting how bad some of our cities look like here in South Africa, maybe post about something way more important like rhino poaching.
Pa-Rty

great to see so many Sout African Chivers out there. one day we should meet up!!!. any hoo joburg central is ok in some parts, its a pity that we have a city that we cannot go Jol in, in the night, like New York and shit. We have to stay outa the city at night, but who cares we go party every where else and even braai in the rain!!! KCCO South Africa
Grant

I saw a sign outside Ponte few weeks ago, they are charging R2000 rent a month which is roughly $250. it is very sad to see people living is such disgusting places and being forced to pay so much for it as well.
Larry

So uh… Tenpenny Tower anyone?
Blake

Glad I was born in America. Could of been born there.
Brianna

You made me laugh my ass off….
sidekick

This is one area… I don’t see any posts about South Africa s great areas and we have incredible areas all over the country and South Africa is nothing like the rest of africa its an amazing place so FUCK you american cunts there is places like this all over America look at all your cities. People that post this and read this have never even been here

Natz

Funny thing bro.. Our own SA boys are the ones making the more ignorant comments.. We can forgive ppl who dnt kno any better bt our own okes talking smack here!! It's a shame

sidekick

O and by the way it was nigerians that did this to hillbrow not South Africans
SAChiver

We were invited by an estate agent to view the top floor apartments which were for sale. The building has biometric security and all the bell and whistles you can image, but you have to go through this mess to get to your apartment.
The units are huge and even have sauna's in some of them, but from what i recall they were going for close to $120'000.00 at the time.

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