{"id":729594,"date":"2026-05-26T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:45:16","slug":"africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27d274336d5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27d274336d5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/#SHARE\" >SHARE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" style=\"max-width:1050px;\">\n                        <input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Forty years is a long time to wait for a building. But when you see what\u2019s rising in Abidjan, the delay starts to feel almost intentional \u2014 like the city was simply holding its breath for the right moment. Tour F, the supertall skyscraper currently piercing the skyline of Ivory Coast\u2019s economic capital, was first imagined in the 1970s as part of a sweeping urban development plan for Abidjan\u2019s Plateau district. The idea was straightforward: complement the existing administrative towers \u2014 A through E \u2014 with a sixth.<\/p>\n<p>What wasn\u2019t straightforward was actually building it. The project stalled for decades, a vision suspended in bureaucratic and economic uncertainty. Construction finally broke ground in 2021, with BESIX Group drilling 70 foundation bars and 62-meter-deep diaphragm wall panels to anchor the structure.<\/p>\n<p>Designer: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pfoafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pierre Fakhoury<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1746\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-627059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1746\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"91a7049c18570dcf4dca15e4-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ad-1 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"91a7049c18570dcf4dca15e4-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-627060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Lebanese-Ivorian architect Pierre Fakhoury \u2014 the same mind behind the breathtaking Notre-Dame de la Paix Basilica in Yamoussoukro \u2014 Tower F is not trying to be a generic glass box. It has something to say. The form is sculptural: a slender volume whose facade is carved into trapezoidal inclined glass planes, each facet tilting inward toward the earth or reaching toward the sky. The top is cleanly truncated, then crowned with a dramatic extension of the glass facade that dissolves into open air. It\u2019s restrained and bold at the same time \u2014 a difficult balance that Fakhoury pulls off with architectural confidence.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the design genuinely compelling is its embedded cultural logic. When viewed from a certain angle, the play of facets reads as a stylized African mask \u2014 a nod to West African artistic tradition embedded quietly into a 21st-century supertall. The building is symmetrical along its east-west axis, grounding the sculptural gesture in structural clarity. At street level, a simple rectangular podium houses the main entrance hall and support services, keeping the base honest and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roachable despite the tower\u2019s imposing scale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1799\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-627061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1799\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"91a7049c18570dcf4dca15e4-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ads-2 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"91a7049c18570dcf4dca15e4-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-627062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At 421 meters, Tower F is set to claim the title of Africa\u2019s tallest building, surpassing The Leonardo in Johannesburg. The gross floor area reaches approximately 140,000 square meters, consolidating government ministries and administrative units currently scattered across the city \u2014 a practical ambition wrapped in an extraordinary shell.<\/p>\n<p>Construction costs are estimated at approximately \u20ac450 million, developed through a collaboration between the Ivorian Ministry of Construction and local firm PFO Africa. Completion is expected in 2026. For a continent whose architectural ambitions are accelerating fast, Tower F is exactly the kind of project that reframes the conversation \u2014 not just about African skylines, but about what it means to design a building that carries cultural memory into the future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1689\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Africa\u2019s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/draft-tower-f\/tower_f_yanko_design_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-627063\" 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Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/25\/africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=africas-tallest-tower-was-worth-the-40-year-wait\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years is a long time to wait for a building. But when you see what\u2019s rising in Abidjan, the delay starts to feel almost intentional \u2014 like the city was simply holding its breath for the right moment. 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