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420 George Street
Building
Completed, 2010
2000
office / retail
concrete
5.0 Star NABERS Energy Rating
136.4 m / 447 ft
36
3
106
19
70,873 m² / 762,871 ft²
Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The CTBUH lists a project manager when a specific firm has been commissioned to oversee this aspect of a tall building’s design/construction. When the project management efforts are handled by the developer, main contract, or architect, this field will be omitted.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The CTBUH lists a project manager when a specific firm has been commissioned to oversee this aspect of a tall building’s design/construction. When the project management efforts are handled by the developer, main contract, or architect, this field will be omitted.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Located in Sydney’s retail district, listed heritage buildings abut the site on both street frontages creating the challenge of inserting a large scale mixed-use building incorporating retail and commercial space seamlessly into the fabric of the context. The retail podium is a modern insertion into the streetscape that references its historic neighbors. The façades, through an abstract composition of vertical masonry and glass blades, reinterpret the scale and rhythm of adjoining heritage buildings in a contemporary architectural language.
The building core has been placed on the north to reduce solar heat gain to the floor plate, while sunshades on the short east and west façades provide this protection. This combination of strategies has allowed the building to be conditioned by a hybrid low temperature VAV system with perimeter chilled beams. An eight-story naturally ventilated atrium in the low-rise portion of the tower creates light filled, vertically-connected floor plates, where there would otherwise have only been low value floor space.
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