THE ADMINISTRATIVE CITY
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Complex of five 26- to 30-storey towers built between 1970 and 1984 to centralize government administrations.
Located in a 6-hectare wooded park at the northern end of the Plateau, the Cité administrative is a complex of five 26 to 30-story towers, representing 125,000 m² of office space on the upper floors. These are the famous towers erected near Saint Paul's Cathedral and which form the "skyline" of the Plateau. The last modernist and functional planning project of the post-independence boom period that Côte d'Ivoire experienced, it symbolizes the "Ivorian miracle". It was created to centralize the government's administrations, at a time when Abidjan was still the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire. It was built between 1970 and 1984 by the architects Renard and Sémichon, who were also responsible for the modernization of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in 1964. Towers A and B both rise to a height of 160 m. Tower D reaches over 239 m, making it the highest building in Côte d'Ivoire. The anodized aluminum panels covering the concrete facades in sunbreakers that made them more aesthetically pleasing have been removed due to their dilapidated state, as the towers are very poorly maintained and regularly suffer from fires.
Since 2016, the Cité administrative has been the subject of a rehabilitation plan entrusted to the Ivorian-Lebanese architect Pierre Fakhoury, but the exterior has still not been restored. On the other hand, an F tower is being built in 2022. It will be one of the highest skyscrapers on the continent, with 64 floors and 283 m in height.
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