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Soleil
501 Adelaide Street
Building
Completed, 2012
4000
residential
concrete
243.0 m / 797 ft
79
7
464
243
7
5 m/s
64,559 m² / 694,907 ft²
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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 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.
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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 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.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
The Brisbane 2016 Summer Seminar: Design of Tall Buildings
24 November 2016 - Event
Located at the edge of Brisbane’s Central Business District on an extremely limited site of just 1,478 square meters, Soleil used its restrictions to create a unique supplement to the skyline. Based on setback requirements and envelope controls, the form of the tower was essentially prescribed, and became an elongated hexagonal plan. To reach the desired density, the tower was designed with a height-to-width ratio of 12:1, making it significantly more slender than most typical buildings in the area.
To ensure the lateral stability of the thin tower, 750mm thick core walls are utilized in conjunction with oscillation acceleration damper tanks on the top two floors of the building. Additionally, the building has the deepest excavated foundations in the region, with seven levels of parking cut through the granite base of the city. The façade treatment on the tower responds directly to the environment, taking inspiration from the adjacent Brisbane River, and utilizes shading devices to create a reflective, rippling effect that is visible from across the city.
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