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Type
  
Commercial

Floor count
  
22

Floors
  
22

Completed
  
1999

Opened
  
1999

Floor area
  
2 ha

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Location
  
Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya

Architect
  
Planning Systems Services

Main contractor
  
Laxmanbhai Construction Ltd

Similar
  
I&M Bank Tower, Times Tower, Kenya Commercial Bank Plaza, UAP Old Mutual Tower, Nairobi Railway Museum

Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the Upper Hill neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

Map of Rahimtulla Tower, 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.

References

Rahimtulla Tower Wikipedia