10 Tallest Buildings In Australia

Sally Polly October 01, 2021 | 04:33

To learn more about 10 tallest and most beautiful buildings in Australia today, keep the article below for detailed information.

Top 10 tallest buildings in Australia

Over the last century, Australia has experienced both economic growth and a population boom. This has led to the emergence of several mega towers to meet the economic and population needs of the country. In addition to population and economic growth, the country’s construction industry has undergone enormous expansion and transformation.

Australia has the highest number of skyscrapers per person in the entire world. It is also among the first five countries to experience a skyscraper boom. Below are the 10 tallest buildings in Australia.

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10. Chifley Tower

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Chifley has an edge in the business world because it is home to some of the most important companies in the country.

Chifley is a famous building in Sydney's skyline that rises above the city. It was made from high-quality materials like sandstone, marble, and steel, and it exudes luxury and opulence with a large lobby and stunning views of Sydney Harbor.

The New York architects Kohn Pedersen Fox worked with the Sydney firm Travis Partners to design Chifley. It is proud to carry on a tradition of strong architecture that was started by the famous art deco buildings of New York.

The renovation of Chifley's stores has made them more upscale, with high-end cafes, restaurants, fashion, and services spread out over three floors. Level One is the best place for food in Sydney's central business district. It has a sophisticated atmosphere and a carefully chosen mix of new food concepts by famous chefs and old favorites.

At Chifley, we care about our tenants' well-being at every level. Our professional Concierge team is always on hand to provide first-class service, and our upgraded, world-class end-of-trip facilities include lockers, showers, and towel service.

In the perfect spot in the middle of the financial district, close to famous landmarks, interesting cultural sites, and beautiful natural scenery. Chifley's location makes it easy to get to major transportation hubs, and there are parking lots right there.

9. Central Park

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In Chippendale, Sydney, New South Wales, Central Park is a major mixed-use urban renewal project on Broadway. The development centers on a 6,500-square-metre (70,000-square-foot) public park off Broadway. A brewery dominated the southern side of Broadway for decades until it closed in the 2000s and was sold. Fosters Group sold the site to Frasers Property on June 29, 2007. On a difficult site, the towers were fitted around the streets, new public spaces and city connections were created, 30,000 specially selected plants were added, art work was included, and pedestrian and vehicular access was included.

One Central Park, an award-winning apartment complex with hanging vertical gardens, is part of the project.

The first stage of the redevelopment is One Central Park, a 117-metre (384 ft) residential tower by Jean Nouvel with "vertical gardens" by Patrick Blanc and LED art by Yann Kersalé. One Central Park, an apartment complex opposite the UTS Tower, has Central Park Mall on the lower levels. A cantilevered section with a heliostat illuminates the parkland below. The tallest building on site. Construction by Watpac Construction ended in October 2013.

The Emporis world's best skyscrapers list included One Central Park East in May 2014. Chicago-based Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named it Asia and Australia's best tall building in July of the same year. It was named the world's best tall building by CTBUH in November 2014. The 2014 LEAF Award Overall Winner was announced in October 2014.

8. Infinity Tower

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The Infinity Tower is a 249-metre (817 ft) skyscraper by Meriton completed in 2014 at 43 Herschel Street Brisbane, Australia. It was the tallest building in Brisbane until it was surpassed by 1 William Street in 2016.

It contains 81 levels of serviced apartments and residential apartments totalling 549 units. It is situated on a relatively small site and is part of the North Quarter district of the Brisbane CBD. It is close to Roma Street railway station, King George Square, Queen Street Mall and the Treasury District. It is also close to the Kurilpa Bridge which gives access to South Bank Parklands and the Queensland Cultural Centre.

Facilities available to tenants includes a spa, lap pool, private gym, sauna and an efficient lift system.

Nearly two-thirds of the building's apartments had been sold as of February 2013.

Excavation began in November 2009 after Meriton purchased the site, which was formerly a ground level carpark, for A$25 million.

In March 2012, Meriton applied for permission from the federal Department of Infrastructure and Transport to operate a crane at a height of 311 m after the Brisbane City Council approved the addition of four storeys to the design.

The building was officially opened by Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman and Meriton boss, Harry Triguboff on 24 July 2013. Levels 25 to 64 had been progressively completed from November 2013 and the overall construction was finished in early 2014.

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7. Rialto Towers

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Rialto (often The Rialto, or Rialto Towers) is a skyscraper located at 525 Collins Street, in the western side of the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the tallest office building in the Southern Hemisphere when it was constructed.

The Rialto featured Melbourne's first skyscraper public observation deck which operated between 1994 and 31 December 2009. It was also the location of Melbourne's first Tower running event.

Designed by architects Gerard de Preu and Partners in association with Perrott Lyon Mathieson, the building was built between 1982 and 1986, opening in October 1986, and takes its name from the much older Rialto Building next door. The massive glass curtain wall façade of reinforced blue tinted mirrored glass is its central feature and changes colour during the day, ranging from a trademark dark blue to a brilliant gold during sunset.

It is 251 m (823 ft) high, with 55 floors and 3 basement floors. It comprises two conjoined towers, the shorter North Tower being 185 m (607 ft) high with 43 floors. In total, there are 84,000 m2 (900,000 sq ft) of office space.

Early tenants moved into the lower floors while the upper floors were still under construction in 1984.

6. Prima Pearl

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Prima Pearl (also referred to as Pearl Tower and Prima Tower) is a residential skyscraper completed in 2014, in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The skyscraper is the sixth–tallest building in Melbourne and the ninth–tallest building in Australia.

The project was relaunched by Schiavello in 2010, this time with the collaboration of fellow developer PDG Corporation. Initially, the proposal submitted to the Minister for Planning was for a skyscraper which would be identical in height to the previous design; however, the number of apartments within the building almost doubled to 616. Other amendments included: a reduction in the number of car park spaces, and an increase to the number of floors within the building (from 63 to 66). During this planning phase, the developers were also pursuing a height increase for the skyscraper, which they later submitted and gained approval. Pursuant to the final plans for the project, the building would comprise two main residential lobbies; 'Prima' would contain half of the residential apartments across the higher section of the building, whilst 'Pearl' would contain the remaining apartments within the lower section of the building. Overall, the skyscraper would reach a height of 254 metres (833 feet), with 72 levels; among amenities such as a swimming pool, the 67–level features a sky–lounge for residents of Prima Pearl.

Early works and construction, which was undertaken by Multiplex on the AUD$292 million skyscraper, commenced as early as March 2012. By July 2014, Prima Pearl had topped–out and was completed later that year. Upon completion, Prima Pearl was the fourth–tallest building in Melbourne and the fifth–tallest building in Australia. It currently remains the fourth-tallest in Melbourne, and has been surpassed as the fifth–tallest in Australia (it is now the sixth).

5. 1 William Street

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A major catalyst project for the Queen’s Wharf precinct, the commercial office tower at 1 William Street was developed and is jointly owned by Cbus Property and ISPT.

The imposing building was designed by Woods Bagot to accommodate the Queensland Public Service. Positioned on the banks of the winding Brisbane River, the architectural form of the tower invites an abstraction of the continuous, sinuous line of the river.

A lustrous, glazed façade, the tower’s cladding reflects and changes with the time of day and quality of sunlight, adjusting to seasonal and climactic variations. Connectivity was achieved via a full-height atrium enabling a non-hierarchical, inclusive workspace with a mix of individual and team based settings.

Drawing inspiration from the Queensland landscape, the scheme seeks to emulate the natural environment, with the application of colour, materiality and texture bringing the outside in. Building on a neutral palette, each level of the building takes cues from the state’s icons and native flora and fauna.

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4. 101 Collins Street

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101 Collins Street is a 260 m (850 ft) skyscraper located in Collins Street, Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia. The 57-storey building designed by Denton Corker Marshall was completed in March 1991. Towards the end of project, with a change of developer, the foyer space was designed by Johnson Burgee.

The tower is currently the 7th tallest building in Australia when measured up to the tallest architectural point which is the 60 m (200 ft)-tall spire.

The tower contains 83,000 m2 (890,000 sq ft) of rentable space. The floor-to-ceiling height is unusually large for a skyscraper at 2.77 m (9 ft 1 in). The 30 m (98 ft) lifts can reach speeds of 7 m/s (23 ft/s). There are 414 underground car park spaces. The building contains double glazed windows with surface coated tempered glass to increase thermal efficiency. The CRA Building was demolished for the construction of this building.

The owners of 101 Collins have had a long term policy of buying up surrounding properties in order to protect their views, especially to the south, with an unintended consequence being that older buildings in Flinders Lane now house hip restaurants and bars.

101 Collins Street lends it name to a Yarra Trams stop that is served by routes 11, 12, 48 and 109.

3. 120 Collins Street

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120 Collins Street is a 265 m (869 ft) skyscraper in Collins Street, Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia. It was built from 1989 to 1991 and it comprises 50 levels of office accommodation and four levels of plant.

The building was designed by architectural firm Hassell, in association with Daryl Jackson. Structural engineers were Connell Wagner, and mechanical, electrical and fire services engineers were Lincolne Scott.

120 Collins Street is a postmodern style building, paying homage to New York City's grand Art Deco buildings, such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. This influence can be seen in the building's granite façade, its setbacks and its central mast.

The building is home to a number of high-profile tenants including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bain, BlackRock, Rothschild, Knight Frank, Qualitas, Standard & Poor's, BlueScope, Urbis, Mitsubishi, Rio Tinto Group, Ord Minnet, System Partners, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Korn Ferry.

When completed in August 1991, the building had a roof height of 220 m (720 ft) with a 45 m (148 ft) spire, bringing the total height to 265 m (869 ft). It was the tallest building in Australia for 14 years until it was surpassed by the Q1 in 2005. It remained the tallest building in Melbourne until being surpassed by the residential Eureka Tower in 2006. It is currently the sixth tallest building in Australia.

2. Eureka Tower

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In Melbourne, Australia, the Eureka Tower is a residential tower block complex located on a 52,724ft² (4,900m²) site in the South Bank suburb One of Australia's tallest buildings, Eureka Tower, cost A$500m.

The construction company Grocon, Melbourne investor Tab Fried, architects Nonda Katsalidis and Karl Fender formed Eureka Tower Pty Ltd. to build the tower.

Construction began in August 2002, and the tower's exterior was finished by June 2006. It opened on October 11, 2006. By July 2006, residents occupied level 80 apartments. All levels except level 85's penthouse floor were sold by 2009.

The Melbourne residential tower is named after the Eureka Stockade rebellion of the 1854 Victoria gold rush (the gold crown with a red stripe symbolizes gold and bloodshed). The building's horizontal lines represent ruler markings, and the blue façade with white lines represents the stockade's blue and white flag.

The tower has special foundations because it was built on reclaimed swampland. The tower is 297.3m (984.3ft) tall with 91 floors, one underground, and 84 floors of apartments. It briefly surpassed Melbourne's Rialto skyscraper by 46.3m.

The building had Otis elevators. Otis supplied nine Elevonic 411 elevators for installation near the central core in the first stage. Additionally, two 9m/s Skyway elevators can take a car to the top of the building in 40 seconds. Skyway elevators serve observation decks.

1. Q1

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Queensland Number One (Q1 Tower) is a 322.5-metre (1,058 ft) Supertall skyscraper in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. Gold Coast's residential tower was the world's tallest from 2005 to 2011. In 2021, it was the eleventh-tallest residential tower in the world, the tallest building in Australia, the second-tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere, and the third-tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, behind Jakarta's Autograph Tower and Auckland's Sky Tower. Q1 opened in November 2005.

Queensland's 150th birthday celebrations honored the iconic building.

Q1 is the world's eleventh-tallest all-residential building when measured to the top of its structural point (spire), but it ranks lower when measured to its roof height and highest inhabitable floor, behind Melbourne's Australia 108 and the Eureka Tower. Q1 is taller according to the ranking system developed by the U.S. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which ranks buildings by spire height.

Q1 became the world's tallest residential tower after surpassing Dubai's 21st Century Tower. In December 2011, Q1 was one of the top 50 tallest buildings in the world by structural point, dwarfing the Gold Coast skyline. The North Tower of Circle on Cavill and the Soul building were the closest.