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More than $3 billion worth of private projects are getting the stamp of approval across metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne.

The improbably narrow Pencil Tower Hotel, pencilled in to be built at 410 Pitt Street in Sydneys business district, measures 328ft high (100m) but is just 16.4ft (5m) wide.

The final piece surrounding the Alumni Green, UTS Building 7 houses a number of spaces, with Durbach Block Jaggers crafting a lightweight and colourful facade that preserves the sunlight on the green.

Architecture projects from Durbach Block Jaggers, based in Sydney - Australia, an Architecture Office firm centered around Residential Architecture

Point Piper NSW 2027 Blessed with the beauty of Sydney Harbour and a private beach hidden away on the doorstep of the CBD, House Taurus isn’t your atypical domicile. Stuck between city buildings and resembling a concrete monolith, Durbach Block Jaggers have devised something that is a brutalistic oasis amongst the metropolis. Constructing the house effectively around a range of obstacles including an apartment building to the north that blocks the sun and a taller building to the east that ...

What drives Judith Neilson? Inside an astonishing Sydney art empire We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Elizabeth FarrellyColumnist, author, architecture critic and essayist February 12, 2021 — 5.00pm Normal text size Advertisement The Australian art wars are a lop-sided affair. Against: the federal government; the state government; universities; the Murdoch press; the mining, roads and tobacco industries; the think tank IPA; the Packers and a...

Sydney ‘Pencil Tower’ to Be Australia’s Skinniest Skyscraper A local development organisation has submitted plans for Australia’s skinniest tower in Sydney’s CBD. With a frontage of just 6.4 metres wide, the hotel tower will stand at a height of 110 metres on Pitt Street. Plans for the 31-storey building were designed by Durbach Block Jaggers architects following an international design competition. The selected design won over submissions from other shortlisted teams including Scott...

Australian architecture studio Durbach Block Jaggers has unveiled its design for the 6.4-metre-wide Pencil Tower Hotel skyscraper that is set to be built at 410 Pitt Street in Sydney. Described by the studio as a "sky scratcher" as it is "too thin to really qualify as a skyscraper", the building has been submitted to planning authorities. According to Durbach Block Jaggers, with a height-to-width ratio of 16:1, Pencil Tower Hotel will be Australias skinniest skyscraper when it is complete. Pe...

‘Pencil tower’ plan on Pitt Street the skinniest yet Save Share A super-skinny hotel tower, 33-storeys high and little more than six metres wide, could soon rise at the Haymarket end of Sydney, the latest and thinnest example yet of a so-called “pencil tower” in Australia. It is the first such pencil tower proposed for Sydney and one whose dimensions eclipse for slenderness two existing examples in Melbourne. An artist’s rendering of what might become the country’...