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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 overlooks the rear of the site, Durbach Block Jaggers have created a place that connects to the beach via beautiful landscaping, fig trees and jetties. The arc of the beach is centred on the site, with the main living space placed directly on the beach, sitting on a sculpted, landscaped stone base and connected to the water by landscaped stairs.
What drives Judith Neilson? Inside an astonishing Sydney art empire
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Elizabeth FarrellyColumnist, author, architecture critic and essayist
February 12, 2021 5.00pm
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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 arguably all other developers (until they want to buy respectability) aside from Stanley Quek. And the fors: a host of impoverished creatives, a few underfunded institutions and Judith Neilson.
Sydneysiders are fascinated by anyone with money. Almost everything written about Neilson drools over the numbers: the size of her art collection, her property portfolio, her bank balance. At the same time, we’re told, the art world is currently enchanted not by young men, but by older women. All
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 Carver, Sissons Architects, and SJB Architects.
The developer, led by Rino Criola, Campbell Duncan, and Ben Ingham, has enlisted Tricon Management Group to oversee the building of the slender tower. The 342 square metre site, currently occupied by a six-storey, 74-room boarding house, was acquired for $20 million in early-2019.
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 Australia s skinniest skyscraper when it is complete.
Pencil Tower Hotel will be a skinny skyscraper
The 100-metre-high tower is set to be built in the downtown area of Sydney on a site at 410 Pitt Street that has a street frontage that is only 6.4 metres wide.
âPencil towerâ plan on Pitt Street the skinniest yet
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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 âpencil towerâ 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 artistâs rendering of what might become the countryâs most slender tower.Â
Super tall, and super thin, such towers are more likely to be found in New York and Hong Kong. But even in those cities, they are relatively rare beasts on the skyline, the result of fortuitous planning decisions combined with property market economics and the modern technology that keeps them upright.