Rahimtulla Tower
Rahimtulla Tower | |
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General information | |
Type | Commercial |
Location | Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya |
Coordinates | 1°17′46″S 36°48′56″E / 1.29611°S 36.81556°ECoordinates: 1°17′46″S 36°48′56″E / 1.29611°S 36.81556°E |
Completed | 1999 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 22 |
Floor area | 17,000 m2 (180,000 sq ft) |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Planning Systems Services |
Main contractor | Laxmanbhai Construction |
Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the Upper Hill neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.
The tower is a reinforced concrete structure, and clad with blue-tinted glass and white louvre tiles. The tower has twenty-two storeys, including a double floor-height lobby, plus two basement floors. It is 16 storeys smaller than the New Central Bank Tower, the tallest building in the country.
The building is capped by a 30-metre high mast, for television and radio communication. The main tenants are iWay Africa, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Dhanush InfoTech. The architect is Planning Systems Services, the structural engineers Mangat, I.B. Patel & Partners, the main contractors were Laxmanbhai Construction and the services engineers for the project were Howard Humphreys (Kenya) Limited.