#10. BCEAO TOWER – BAMAKO, MALI
BCEAO Tower in Bamako, Mali is the tallest building in the West African with 20 stories in it. It is the Malian headquarters of the Central Bank of the West African States, which provides development banking and government financial and currency services in several Francophone West African nations.
The tower is modeled on the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of the famous Mosques of Djennéand Timbuktu. The building, dull orange in color, matches the traditional Banco architecture of West Africa, as well as that of the soil in the surrounding area. Its tapered shape resembles a termite hill from a distance and its distinctive “horns” on the building’s top, and its deeply incised, vertically variegated facade are typical decorative elements of Sahelian architecture.
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