Chifley Tower
Chifley Tower | |
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Record height | |
Tallest in Sydney from 1992 to 2019[I] | |
Preceded by | Citigroup Centre |
Surpassed by | Crown Sydney |
General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Office |
Location | Sydney, Australia |
Coordinates | 33°51′57.4″S 151°12′41.9″E / 33.865944°S 151.211639°E |
Construction started | 1988 |
Completed | 1992 |
Cost | A$ 1.2 billion |
Height | |
Antenna spire | 244 m (801 ft) |
Roof | 216 m (709 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 53 |
Floor area | 90,000 m2 (968,800 sq ft) |
Lifts/elevators | 29 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Kohn Pedersen Fox |
Developer | Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd & Kumagai Gumi |
Website | |
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Chifley Tower is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. It was designed by New York City-based architects[1] Travis McEwen and Kohn Pedersen Fox, with John Rayner as project architect.[2] At a height of 244 metres (801 feet), Chifley Tower was the tallest building in Sydney from 1992 to 2019. It was surpassed in height by Crown Sydney (271 metres) in 2020 along with the Salesforce Tower (263 metres) and One Sydney Harbour (247 metres) in 2022.
Site history
Chifley Tower is built on an irregularly shaped plot. Due to the organic development of Sydney's street pattern, the streets that run north from this area form a skewed grid that is aligned differently to the streets that run south from this area, which form another skewed grid. The cross streets immediately north and south of the site (Bent and Hunter), on the other hand, follow meandering alignments that do not align with these skewed grids.
At the southwestern corner of the plot, Elizabeth Street terminates at Hunter Street while, a short distance to the east,
Land resumptions to create this square continued for many years. In 1957,
The building was originally named Bond Tower, after Alan Bond. After Bond's bankruptcy, the building was acquired by Kumagai Gumi, and in 1993 was renamed Chifley Tower, after the square. The retail arcade located in the podium building is named "Chifley Plaza".
Features
Located at 2 Chifley Square, its cross streets are Hunter, Philip and Bent Streets with the main entry being on Phillip Street.[1] Due to its prominent location at the peak in the north-east CBD, the Tower has broad harbour views from its 42 storeys.[4] The tower is used primarily for commercial use, mostly financial institutions, law firms and corporations. Current tenants include UBS, Blackrock, Servcorp,[5] Hana Financial Group and Bank of Queensland.
A midrise podium building surrounds the tower. Retail arcades are located on the lower levels, while the upper levels of the podium building are used as commercial offices (for most of the building's history, as
A 3-metre (9.8 ft) lightning rod was added in 2000, extending its original height from 241 metres (791 ft) to 244 metres (801 ft). To stop the tower from moving in the wind a giant steel pendulum weighing 400 long tons (450 short tons) is held from eight 75-millimetre (3.0 in) wires near the rooftop. The tower is named after former Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley.[citation needed]
At one time All Nippon Airways operated a sales office on Level 32.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Chifley Tower – Background". Archived from the original on 24 May 2006.
- ^ "Bio". Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ^ a b Dictionary of Sydney – Chifley Square
- ^ SkyscraperPage
- ^ "Office space, Virtual Office, Coworking in Sydney | Chifley Tower". servcorp.com.au. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "ANA Directory" (Archive). All Nippon Airways. 1998. Retrieved on 9 July 2016. "Sydney Level 32, The Chifley Tower 2 Chifley Square, Sydney N.S.W. 2000, Australia"
External links
- Laila Ellmoos (2008). "Chifley Tower". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 9 October 2015.[CC-By-SA]
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