![]() In fact, the tower is able to flex up to 600 millimetres (about 2.3 inches), while on the 90th floor there are huge containers holding 300,000 litres (79,285 gallons) of water just to reduce the oscillations caused by the wind.Īll this makes up a giant of 200,000 tons, erected a few meters from Melbourne’s majestic Yarra River. The structure was designed to oscillate in response to the strong winds that buffet Melbourne. The first ten floors house the building’s management offices, restaurants, gyms, swimming pool, stores and a maxi parking lot capable of accommodating 814 cars. Inside the tower, there are 556 apartments of various sizes, distributed between the 11th and 80th floors, and they are divided into three distinct areas according to the cost: the “river rise” between the 11th and 24th floor, the “premier rise” between the 25th and 52nd floor and the “sky rise” between the 53rd and 80th floor. The double-glazing system mounted on the entire facade delivers a 40% reduction in the costs of heating and cooling. ![]() The developer carried out a special study on the thickness of the glass in order to mitigate the thermal changes in summer and winter. The facade of the building consists of 52,000 square metres (560,000 sq ft) of glass and 40,000 square metres of aluminum panels. This skyscraper that towers over the Southbank district of Melbourne is unique because it contains only apartments: it sits on a 4,900 square metre (52,724 square foot) site and was sold out by 2009 (except for the penthouse on the 85th floor). Since then, however, the dark glass tower that looms over Melbourne has become one of the symbols of the city’s skyline, an example of a vital metropolis that is expected to grow to over 5 million inhabitants by 2030 and is now recognised worldwide as a major cultural hub. This record of course has been surpassed over the years. The tower has become an icon of this Australian city, both for its size as the third-tallest in Australia (standing at 297.3 metres, or 975 feet), after the Australia 108 tower in Melbourne and Q1 in Queensland), and for its special characteristics.ĭesigned by Fender Katsalidis Architects, when the building was completed on Jit ranked as the tallest residential skyscraper in the world. ![]() The top floors of the Eureka Tower, the famous Melbourne skyscraper named after that bloody battle, are clothed in these colors and dedicated to that chapter of Australian history. Gold to represent the race for the conquest of riches, and red to indicate the bloody battle of Decemduring the Victoria gold rush, when the miners of Ballarat, in the Australian state of Victoria, rose up in the Battle of the Eureka Stockade to rebel against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom.
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