1 Bligh Street
1 Bligh Street | |
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Cundall (ESD Consultant), Arup | |
Main contractor | Grocon |
Awards and prizes | International Highrise Award 2012 |
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Cbus Property |
1 Bligh Street is a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The
Design
The premium grade office tower was designed by
It is an
The building also houses a childcare centre, two cafés and a basement car park for 96 cars.
The large-scale aluminium sculpture at the top of the curving steps at the entrance on the corner of Bligh and O'Connell streets is by California-based Australian James Angus. The developers describe it as "a complex network of three-dimensional ellipsoidal surfaces drawn from shapes expressed in the design of the building," adding that its brightly painted colour scheme traces the underlying geometry of the sculpture.
The building was named the Best Tall Building Award in Asia & Australasia for 2012[3] in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Skyscraper Awards, won the 2012 International Highrise Award[4][5][6] and the 2012 Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture.[1]
Major tenants
- Accor Pacific
- Bloomberg L.P.
- Clayton Utz[7]
- Office of the Prime Minister of Australia[8]
- Commonwealth Parliament Offices[9]
- Oil Search[9]
- Preqin
- Vault Systems[10]
See also
- Buildings and architecture of Sydney
- List of tallest buildings in Sydney
References
- ^ a b c Power, Julie (7 December 2022). "Sydney is getting taller, but is it getting better?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ Galvin, Nick (24 September 2011). "Office workers reap healthy spin-offs from efficient building design". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "2012 Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia". ctbuh.org. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
- ^ "Office highrise »1 Bligh Street« in Sydney wins the International Highrise Award 2012". International Highrise Award. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ Vivian, Philip (1 March 2012). "1 Bligh Street". Australian Design Review. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "1 Bligh Street". Architecture Design. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Clayton Utz and the Environment". Clayton Utz. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Another tenant for Sydney's 1 Bligh Street, but Dexus needed to grease the wheels". Urban. 20 March 2012.
- ^ a b "Another tenant for Sydney's 1 Bligh Street". Jonathan Chancellor. Property Observer. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "DEXUS lease bonanza at 56 Pitt Street and 1 Bligh Street". Financial Review. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
External links
- 1 Bligh official website
- 1 Bligh Street at Cbus Property website
- 1 Bligh Street at Architectus website
- 1 Bligh Street at enstuct website
- 1 Bligh Street at Arup website