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Title: : Rising Up Down Under

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Subject: Architectural/Design

Publication Date: 2017

Original Publication: CTBUH Journal 2017 Issue IV

Paper Type: 1. Book chapter/Part chapter 2. Journal paper 3. Conference proceeding 4. Unpublished conference paper 5. Magazine article 6. Unpublished

© Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Tall Buildings in Numbers Australia: Rising Up Down Under

Australia is one of the world’s least densely-populated countries, Study of 100m+ Buildings in Australia and yet it has one of the highest proportions of urban dwellers, a 356 Completed; 82 Under Construction; 438 Total figure that is increasing. A boom in tall building construction is underway, paralleled by several significant transportation projects, Government Adelaide 0.7% (3) 0.9% (4) particularly in the three CTBUH 2017 Conference cities of Sydney, Hotel Education Perth and Brisbane. This study examines the timeline, 5% (22) 0.2% (1) 5.9% (26) composition, and location of buildings 100 meters and taller (complete or under construction), set against the backdrop of new Mixed-Use Gold Coast 11.4% (50) public transportation projects that are “connecting the city” and 12.1% (53) Melbourne 33.3% (146) aligning towards a denser, more sustainable future. Residential Brisbane 45.4% (199) 16% (70) Note: The six cities in this study are Australia’s six largest in terms of population, and all O ffi c e contain at least one 100-meter or taller building. “City” in this study is identical to a 36.5% (160) “metropolitan area,” as defined by Bureau of Statistics. All population data is Sydney from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census. All tall building data is from the 32.5% (142) CTBUH Center: www.skyscrapercenter.com.

By Function By City

Timeline of Buildings over 100 Meters in Australia Bars represent the total number of buildings completed or under construction each year. Dots represent a specific building and its height and function. Note: chart begins in 1960 as the AWA Tower, Sydney (1939), was Australia’s first and only building over 100 meters until 1962.

O ffi c e Residential Mixed-Use Hotel Other

375 48 2020: Australia 108, Melbourne 350 2005: Tower, Gold Coast 44 First Supertall in Australia and still 2019: Crown Sydney Hotel the country's tallest in 2017 and Resort, Sydney 325 40 2018: Brisbane Skytower, Brisbane 2006: , Melbourne

300 36 No. of Buildings Completed (Bar) 1992: Chifley Tower, Sydney 2017: Most active year to date 28 buildings completed 275 32 1977: MLC Centre, Sydney 1992: , Perth First building in Australia to exceed 200 meters 2016: 1 William St., Brisbane 250 28

225 24

200 20 1988: Westpac House, Adelaide

175 16

150 1962: 33 Alfred Street, Sydney 12 Individual Building Height (Dot) in Meters

125 8

100 4

75 0 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020

The proposed Orion Towers Eureka Tower, Melbourne, The Sydney Metro project’s fi rst (South Tower), Gold Coast, hosted “air plants” on its stage, due in 2019, will deliver 16 would become Australia’s roof, in a cross-disciplinary new stations and increase train tallest building at 328 meters, art/science collaboration to frequencies to every four minutes overtaking the 323-meter Q1 determine the potential of at peak hour. Tower, Gold Coast. greenery at height.

48 | Tall Building in Numbers CTBUH Journal | 2017 Issue IV Adelaide Brisbane Gold Coast

569,997 pop. 12,368 1,295,714 12,368 sq. km pop. sq. km 3,258 2,270,800 sq. km pop. 270 m 260 m

Melbourne Perth Sydney Australia 86% Total Population: 23,401,892 2 9,991 6,418 Total Land Area (km ): 7,692,024 sq. km sq. km 2 4,485,211 4,823,991 Population Density (ppl/km ): 3.05 pop. 1,943,858 pop. pop. 143 ppl/sq. km 12,368 Building Totals sq. km 300m+ Buildings Completed: 1 200m+ Buildings Completed: 33 100m+ Buildings Completed: 356 Tallest Building Under Construction 1 William (2016) Brisbane Skytower (2019) 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 82 323 m Tallest Building: Q1, Gold Coast, 322.5 m (2005) 300m+ Buildings Completed: 0 200m+ Buildings Completed: 5 86% Average Height of All 100m+ Buildings: 141 m 100m+ Buildings Completed: 60 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 10 Existing Metro Rail (km): 295.7* Under Construction/Planned Metro (km): 10.2* *Note: Data includes busway. 307 Brisbane ppl/sq. km 2,270,800 pop. 15,842 sq. km

569,997 Tallest Building pop. Gold Coast 1,858 Q1 Tower (2005) sq. km 6,416 300m+ Buildings Completed: 1 sq. km 200m+ Buildings Completed: 3 100m+ Buildings Completed: 43 1,943,858 Perth Adelaide 4,823,991 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 7 pop. pop. 249 m 397 Existing Metro Rail (km): 13.7 132 m ppl/sq. km 1,295,714 pop. 12,368 Under Construction/Planned 75% 3,260 Metro (km): 7.3 sq. km sq. km 65% 303 ppl/sq. km 9,993 Sydney sq. km 4,485,211 271 m Tallest Building pop. 244 m Westpac House (1988) 86% 300m+ Buildings Completed: 0 Melbourne 200m+ Buildings Completed: 0 317 m 100m+ Buildings Completed: 3 297 m Tallest Building 390 Central Park Tower (1992) 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 1 ppl/sq. km Existing Metro Rail (km): 155 300m+ Buildings Completed: 0 200m+ Buildings Completed: 3 76% 100m+ Buildings Completed: 17 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 9 449 Existing Metro Rail (km): 173.1 ppl/sq. km Tallest Building Under Construction Chifl ey Tower (1988) Crown Sydney Hotel and Resort (2019) 300m+ Buildings Completed: 0 XX,XXX X,XXX,XXX 200m+ Buildings Completed: 9 sq. km Pop. Key 100m+ Buildings Completed: 122 bubbles sized in relation to the data 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 20 Population of city Existing Metro Rail (km): 973.7 XXX m Tallest Building Under Construction Under Construction/Planned Metro (km): 65 Area of city (sq. km) Eureka Tower (2006) Australia 108 (2020) XX% architectural height of city’s 300m+ Buildings Completed: 0 tallest 100m+ building 200m+ Buildings Completed: 13 percentage of 100m+ 100m+ Buildings Completed: 111 175 buildings completed (black) 100m+ Buildings Under Construction: 35 ppl/sq. km vs. under construction (white) Existing Metro Rail (km): 1,080 population density of city Under Construction/Planned Metro (km): 9 each icon represents 50 ppl/sq. km

Building Status Building Name (Year Completed)

Three major fl oods hit Brisbane – in One Central Park, Sydney, Queensland’s Western 1893, 1974, and 2010–11, causing 87 winner of CTBUH’s 2014 Corridor Recycled deaths and more than AU$9 billion Best Tall Building Worldwide Water Scheme recycles in damage. The Somerset Dam, Award, supports a black (effl uent) water completed in 1953, mitigated the cantilevered heliostat that for drinking water in eff ects of the two later events. directs sunlight optimally. times of drought.

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