26 projects from 18 countries were nominated for the International Highrise Award 2012/13. A jury of experts selected five buildings as finalists and chose 1 Bligh Street in Sydney as the winner.
Best High-Rises 2012/13
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Office tower 1 Bligh Street in Sydney wins International Highrise Award 2012/13

Though at 139 meters and 30 floors the winning building does not set any height records it does set new standards on its continent regarding social, cultural, urban-planning and sustainability. »The overall quality of the building is outstanding. With their design the architects avoid the iconic, and instead place the emphasis on the needs of the users – say the view from all the offices,« commented the jury of experts chaired by Frankfurt- based architect Prof. Albert Speer. »1 Bligh Street« has an elliptic shape and is slightly out of line with the street, so that all the offices have a direct view of Sydney Harbor and Harbor Bridge. It is Australia’s first highrise to have a naturally ventilated double façade of glass. This enables and ideal an ideal incidence of daylight reduces heating costs and losses and accentuates the building’s overall homogenous, crystalline shape.

The building’s main tenant is the law firm Clayton Utz, which has rented 15 floors. Project developer of the highrise completed in 2011 is the DEXUS Property Group, one of the leading Australian real-estate firms.

1 Bligh Street
Sydney, Australia
Architecture
ingenhoven architects,
Düsseldorf, Germany
Architectus Sydney,
Australia
Client
DEXUS Property Group, DEXUS Wholesale Property Fund, Cbus Property
Function
office building
Height
139
Completion
June 2011

Nominierungen

26 outstanding projects from 18 countries were nominated for the International Highrise Award 2012/13.

  • PREISTRÄGER
    1 Bligh Street
    Sydney, Australia
    Architecture
    ingenhoven architects,
    Düsseldorf, Germany
    Architectus Sydney,
    Australia
  • Finalists
    Absolute Towers
    Mississauga, Canada
    Architecture
    MAD architects, Beijing
  • Finalists
    Eight Sprice Street
    New York City, USA
    Architecture
    Gehry Partners, Los Angeles
  • Finalists
    Pinnacle@Duxton
    Singapour, Singapour
    Architecture
    ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism, Singapour
  • Finalists
    The Troika
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Architecture
    Foster + Partners, London
Jury

An international jury of experts consisting of of architects, structural engineers and and civil engineers headed by the Frankfurt architect Prof. Albert Speer, selected the five finalists and the winner from the nominees.

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