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Neil Durbach, architect of the proposed Pencil Tower hotel, says ‘each [hotel] room is super compact, it’s almost like a train compartment.’ Composite: Durbach Block The impossibly tall and thin aesthetic no longer limited to the runways of high fashion, the trend for slenderness has now moved into architectural design as Australian cities follow New York and Hong Kong in the construction of towers as narrow as they are high. Joining the Phoenix Apartments in Flinders Street, Melbourne – which first brought the skinny tower to Australia – will be the proposed Pencil Tower hotel in Sydney and the Magic Tower in Melbourne. ....
“We believe it will be the narrowest and most slender in Australia,” he said. In a nod to interstate rivalry, he said the Pencil Tower Hotel will be narrower and taller than the thinnest tallest building in Melbourne, the Phoenix Apartments in Flinders Street. The 33-storey hotel, which won a City of Sydney design competition, will contain 173 rooms that are typically 13 squares metres in size. “While compact they are designed for overlapping and intuitive use - closer to a train or plane compartment than a conventional hotel room,” Durbach said. The hotel would also feature shared spaces such as a three-storey “urban room” housing the lobby, cafe and lounge, a walled courtyard garden on the sixth floor and a Hammam pool and spa deck on the 30th floor. ....
The slender tower has won praise from Philip Oldfield, associate professor in the University of NSWâs Faculty of Built Environment, who described the design as ingenious and beautiful. âI appreciate the sweeping curved light wells in the plan that seek to provide light and view to the hotel rooms near the centre of the building,â he said. âItâs an ingenious way of organising the design on what is an incredibly tight site.â Professor Oldfield said the hotel was âquite uniqueâ compared to many bulkier towers emerging in the CBD and Parramatta. Loading âThe other thing that marks 410 Pitt Street as unique is its tight site, hemmed in by existing buildings, requiring innovative architecture to ensure all spaces get light and view,â he said. ....
âPencil towerâ 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 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. 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. ....