Architecture of Johannesburg Architecture of Johannesburg Johannesburg is the capital of the Gauteng province, and the financial hub of South Africa. Founded in 1886, the city is located in the Witwatersrand region, which has vast gold deposits. The town experienced rapid growth as the gold deposits were exploited, and is now South Africa's largest urban center. As a result, the Johannesburg area has a wide variety of architecture, from early Art Nouveau to post-modern buildings. Hillbrow, for example, contains many buildings constructed since the 1950s, including the Hillbrow Tower. Johannesburg features a variety of commercial and residential buildings, so there are also a
Frederick S. Pardee 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the university. A year later, in 2014, he donated US$4 more million. Additionally, he has donated to the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the Frederick S. Pardee Library for the Future of Africa was named in his honor in 2009. Frederick S. Pardee Frederick S. Pardee (born 1932) is an American economist, real estate investor and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Boston University, Fred Pardee has now become one of the largest donors to the University. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation from 1957 to