Witness the Evolution of Africa's Tallest Residential Skyscraper

The core of the building in mid-2008 as workers clear building rubble that had been thrown there as the only way of getting it down from the apartments.

A Congolese woman was on her way to a wedding with her equally well-dressed husband.

Ponte City, foregrounded by African Church members, and set against the Johannesburg skyline.

A poster that advertised the failed redevelopment of 2007-08. The first of these yellow glass "pods" were actually built on the 34th floor alongside the show apartments and it took quite some courage to step into them.

A section of our combined lightbox that puts together a photograph from every window in the building. The photographs are arranged exactly true to the architecture, flat-by-flat and floor-by-floor.

A girl photographed in the Ponte City entrance-way through a dirty window at the height of the 2008 reconstruction.

The northwest view looking over Hillbrow, from a 50th-floor apartment.

A spread from the Ponte City book that includes a hand-written note with a map showing a Congolese refugee's journey to South Africa. This is overlaid on a photograph found in the same abandoned apartment.

We spent a lot of time with this family, as the kids loved being photographed.

A section from the televisions lightbox.

The same apartment where the kids loved being photographed.

The doors typology.

A security guard sits at the old motorcar entrance to the complex.

A man and a young boy in an elevator.