From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1 Bligh Street

Skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Field	Value
name	1 Bligh Street
image	Young Street, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney, 2013.jpg
location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
coordinates
status	Completed
completion_date	May 2011
opening	August 2011
building_type	Commercial office building
roof	139 m
floor_count	30
cost	A$270 million
floor_area	42700 m2
architect	Ingenhoven in collaboration with Architectus
structural_engineer	Enstruct Group
other_designers	Cundall (ESD Consultant), Arup
owner	Dexus Property and the Dexus Wholesale Fund
main_contractor	Grocon
developer	Cbus Property, Dexus Property and the Dexus Wholesale Fund
awards
references	[Cbus Property](https://web.archive.org/web/20100430101937/http://www.cbusproperty.com.au/PropertiesHidden/CommercialProperties/1BlighStreet.aspx)
website

1 Bligh Street is a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The 30-storey modern style office building is located in the Sydney central business district overlooking Circular Quay, the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Design

The premium grade office tower was designed by Ingenhoven Architects of Germany and Architectus of Australia.

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. 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 m) atrium, on the southern side of the building, maximises natural light to each office level.

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 colour 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.

Major tenants

Accor Pacific
Bloomberg L.P.
Clayton Utz
Office of the Prime Minister of Australia
Commonwealth Parliament Offices
Oil Search
Preqin
Vault Systems

References

Power, Julie. (2022-12-07). "Sydney is getting taller, but is it getting better?".
Galvin, Nick. (24 September 2011). "Office workers reap healthy spin-offs from efficient building design". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
"2012 Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
"Office highrise »1 Bligh Street« in Sydney wins the International Highrise Award 2012". International Highrise Award.
Vivian, Philip. (1 March 2012). "1 Bligh Street". Australian Design Review.
(1 July 2013). "1 Bligh Street". Architecture Design.
"Clayton Utz and the Environment". Clayton Utz.
(20 March 2012). "Another tenant for Sydney’s 1 Bligh Street, but Dexus needed to grease the wheels".
(21 March 2012). "Another tenant for Sydney’s 1 Bligh Street". Property Observer.
(16 May 2016). "DEXUS lease bonanza at 56 Pitt Street and 1 Bligh Street".

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

office-buildings-completed-in-2011 2011-establishments-in-australia skyscraper-office-buildings-in-sydney sydney-central-business-district sustainable-buildings-in-australia neo-futurist-architecture-in-australia

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1 Bligh Street — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report