by 2summers | Jan 10, 2020 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings
The Johannesburg central business district (locals call it the CBD) has experienced tumultuous change over the past 50 years. Nowhere is that change more visible than at the once glitzy, now abandoned Carlton Hotel. The Carlton opened at the height of apartheid in...
by 2summers | Apr 12, 2012 | Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings
The top floor of the Carlton Centre, officially named the Top of Africa, is one of the most underrated attractions in this highly underrated city. Sure, the observation deck is run-down and the windows are smudged. (In fact, smudged is an understatement. Try filthy.)...
by 2summers | Mar 3, 2011 | Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre
Africa’s tallest building lives in Joburg. At 50 stories and 223 meters (730 feet) tall, the Carlton Center is modest by Western and Far-Eastern skyscraper standards. Even when you get within a couple of blocks, the Carlton Center looks strangely unimpressive....