Discover Morocco’s Mohammed VI Tower, tallest building to be in Africa as from 2022

With a ballistic missile structure and a height of 250 meters, Morocco's Mohammed IV Tower also the Bank of Africa Tower has already become the tallest building on the African continent. Although it is yet to be finished as only the structure has been built, it is expected to be filled in by 2022, the year in which the construction will be completed. Before we continue with this video, kindly subscribe to our channel if you are new here and turn on the notification to always get notified each time we drop a video. Stay tuned. Rafael de la Hoz, a famous Spanish architect who are the designers of the Mohammed IV Tower, gave a conference at the Instituto Cervantes in Rabat in which they confirmed that the new tower is intended to be one of the symbols of culture in the new Morocco and at the same time a demonstration of what the country is capable of. The project began on 9th March 2016 when King Mohammed IV laid the first stone of the new skyscraper at a cost of 357 million euros. This architectural work is composed of a base of 80-metre-deep piles that support the construction. It is then distributed over 55 floors and will be used when completed as living quarters, a hotel and the headquarters of various offices. It will also have 4,700-metre square of solar panels making it a reference point for culture and the fight against climate change. In de la Hoz's words, this building has an Afro-futuristic character style similar to those in films depicting advanced African locations and buildings such as the Kingdom of Wakanda in the Marvel superhero films Black Panther starring the late Chadwick Boseman. This is why this new tower is classified in that aspect since the buildings shown in futuristic African films are not a reality and thanks to those films, many architects are being influenced and taking references to realise their plans on the African continent. Rafael de la Hoz's firm is currently working on other equally important urban planning projects in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Hungary and the United Arab Emirates. This new tower is located in the north of Rabat, the capital of the Kingdom and is situated on the banks of the Boreget River. Though the project was rejected by UNESCO due to its proximity to the river and the importance of not building near-world natural heritage sites, the project went ahead regardless. The tower will be close to Rabat's Grand Theatre which will be unveiled next year at the same time and is designed by the late Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. Hadid is one of the pioneering women architects in the Arab world and is known for winning important prizes in the world such as the Protska Prize in 2004, known as the Nobel Prize for Architecture and the Sterling Prize from 2010 to 2011 awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Among the architect's most important works are the London Aquatic Centre in 2012, the Rosenthal Contemporary Art Centre in 1998 in Ohio, USA and the Bridge Pavilion at the Zaragoza International Exposition in 2008. The Mohammed IV Tower will be the tallest building in Africa in 2022 but it's quite unfortunate that the glory will not last beyond 2023 as Kenya's The Pineapple will be the tallest building in Africa from 2023. Kindly subscribe to our channel if you are yet to, give this video a like if you enjoyed it and feel free to drop a comment in the comment section below. Thanks for watching.