Africa’s skyline to get a multi-billion facelift
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD Last week, Tanzania’s AICL Group and Edinburgh-based investment company Crowland Management unveiled designs for a skyscraper that would be right at home in the glitzy skyscraper-rich emirate of Dubai. Instead, the upcoming 1.3 billion US dollars tower will be built close to Tanzania's capital, Dar es Salaam. Upon completion, the Zanzibar Domino Commercial Tower will be a 70-storey, spiralling skyscraper on a man-made island off the west coast of the country’s Zanzibar archipelago. It will also be the second-tallest building in Africa, after Egypt’s Iconic Tower, 28 miles east of the capital Cairo. Nonetheless, the Domino will…