1 Bligh Street (Greater Sydney)
| office building, skyscraper, commercial building
Australia /
New South Wales /
Sydney /
Greater Sydney
World
/ Australia
/ New South Wales
/ Sydney
office building, skyscraper, commercial building
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1 Bligh Street is a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The modern style office building is located in the Sydney central business district overlooking Circular Quay, the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The premium grade office tower was designed by Ingenhoven Architects of Germany and Architectus of Australia.[1]
It is an ecologically sustainable development and was awarded six-star green status by the Green Building Council of Australia. Green features include a basement sewage plant that recycles 90 percent of the building waste water, solar panels on the roof and air conditioning by chilled beams.[2] It is Australia's first major high-rise building with a full double-skin façade with external louvres. These conserve energy, eliminate sky glare and optimise user comfort. The angle of the louvre blades is automatically adjusted according to their orientation to the sun. A naturally ventilated, full height (120 meters (390 ft)) atrium, on the southern side of the building, maximises natural light to each office level.[1]
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 color scheme traces the underlying geometry of the sculpture.
The building was named the Best Tall Building Award in Asia & Australasia for 2012 in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Skyscraper Awards, won the 2012 International Highrise Award and the 2012 Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture.
The modern style office building is located in the Sydney central business district overlooking Circular Quay, the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The premium grade office tower was designed by Ingenhoven Architects of Germany and Architectus of Australia.[1]
It is an ecologically sustainable development and was awarded six-star green status by the Green Building Council of Australia. Green features include a basement sewage plant that recycles 90 percent of the building waste water, solar panels on the roof and air conditioning by chilled beams.[2] It is Australia's first major high-rise building with a full double-skin façade with external louvres. These conserve energy, eliminate sky glare and optimise user comfort. The angle of the louvre blades is automatically adjusted according to their orientation to the sun. A naturally ventilated, full height (120 meters (390 ft)) atrium, on the southern side of the building, maximises natural light to each office level.[1]
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 color scheme traces the underlying geometry of the sculpture.
The building was named the Best Tall Building Award in Asia & Australasia for 2012 in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Skyscraper Awards, won the 2012 International Highrise Award and the 2012 Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Bligh_Street
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°51'53"S 151°12'38"E
- South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist Church 18 km
- Fantastic Furniture - distribution centre 22 km
- Arnott's Head Office and Bakery 32 km
- University of Wollongong - Innovation Campus 66 km
- Dux Manufacturing 107 km
- Port Ash Australia 148 km
- Headquarters Joint Operations Command, Australian Defence Force 234 km
- Geoscience Australia 250 km
- Caroline Chisholm Centre 262 km
- Tuggeranong Office Park 262 km
- Circular Quay 0.6 km
- Sydney Cove 0.7 km
- The Domain 0.7 km
- The Royal Botanic Garden 0.7 km
- Sydney CBD 0.9 km
- Hyde Park 1 km
- Cockle Bay 1.1 km
- Darling Harbour 1.2 km
- North Sydney Council 3.4 km
- Inner West Council 5.9 km