Aurora Place
Aurora Place is the common name of Renzo Piano’s award-winning office tower and residential block on Sydney’s Macquarie Street. Its official name is the ABN AMRO building, after its principal tenant. The 41-storey structure is 218 m high to the top of the spire and 188 m to the roof.
The building has an unusual geometric shape where not one panel is parallel to any grid. The east façade bulges out slightly from its base, reaching its maximum width at the top floors. The curved and twisted shape of east façade is aimed to correspond spatially with Sydney Opera House and to represent the sublime marine environment of the harbour. The exterior glass curtain-wall extends beyond the main frame, creating an illusion of its independence. The steel spire attached to the north facade is 75 m in length.
The building was built on the site of the former NSW Government Office Block by Bovis Lend Lease. The assumptions of a planned tower were first presented to the Central Sydney Planning Committee in 1996, when three main architects: Mark Carroll, Shunji Ishida and Renzo Piano put forward the innovative project. The building was sold in January 2001 for $485 million. Aurora Place was the winner of prestigious 2002 Property Council of Australia Rider Hunt Award, handled out for technical and financial qualities.
Other Information
- Location : Central Business District, Sydney, Australia
- Status : Built
- Use : Office
- Begun : 1996
- Completed : 2000
- Façade : Glass curtain wall
- Roof : 188.8 m (479 feet)
- Pinnacle/Spire : 219 m (718 feet)
- Floors : 41
- Architects : Renzo Piano Building Workshop in association with Innovarchi Architects, Sydney and Lend Lease Design Group (TSG)
- Developers : Bovis Lend Lease, East Asia Property Group, Mirvac Group (Residential only)
- Project Manager : Bovis Lend Lease
- Structural Engineers : Lend Lease Design Group; Ove Arup and Partners; Taylor, Thompson & Whitting
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