Question

What are the top four tallest buildings in Australia? What concerns do you have regarding their function and design?

Answer 1

the top 4 building in Australia are

1. Q1 tower

2.eureka tower

3.brisbane sky tower

4.120collins street

1} design and functioning of Q1 tower

Q1 tower and well known by Queensland no.1. it is a 1058 ft high skyscraper present in the surfer paradise, Queensland Australia.it is a residential tower and also have a title of world tallest building from 2005 to 2011. in present rating it is at 9th place in the world but remains at 1st rank in Australia. tower having a floor height of 245 m ear about 840ft. its design and construction completed by the Buchan group and  Sunland group. its top floor height is 235m, Q1 tower is known for its cloud touching beauty this tower having 78 floor with 2 basement floors. it covers the total floor are 107511m^2. its form inspired by Sydney opera house.Q1 building having 2 lagoon swimming pools, gymnasium, a lap pool, spa centre, shopping centre, small theatre.

the designing concept of Q1 tower based on the wind load and its effect on building for this concern series of ribbons are wrap concentrically around the tower form and hover above entry plaza area. this will providing an cover and shading. aluminium clad ribbons are used to take care of tension and free movement. under the glazed ribbon, there is an open-air gallery, street edge. Q1 tower has four high-speed lift services from a B2 level to 42 level. and also 3high speed lift services from 43 to top floor and penthouse.

foundation of the building having 26 to 28 piles, each pile having a diameter of 2 meters and height 40m into the ground. these piles passing through the four-meter thick rock layer.

2} design and functioning of eureka tower.

Another tallest building of Australia is the eureka tower of height 297.5m. it is located in the Melbourne victoria Australia. the project was under the fender katsalidis architects and built by grocon. it is a residential building and observation tower. it is the world tallest building when measured to its heights floor.present ranking according to height is 3rd in Australia. this building having 91 floor and 1 underground floor. it covers a total floor area of 123000m^2. eureka tower is one of the only tallest building in the world having 90 floor or more and max floor are for residential. it having a single basement and first 9 floors having a facility of car parking. eureka tower having a 24 career gold plated windows on top 10 floor.

from 2012 here eureka climb event has been held every year. in this event, the participant has to reach up to the top of the building by using steps in minimum time. eureka tower is special because building a gold crown represents gold rush and its red stripe represents revolt.building is covered by blue glass and its white strip used by surveyors measuring staff. base of the tower having an art installation containing bees inside a white box.

eureka tower having 555 apartments and near about 13 lifts, tower having an open windows area near about 52000m^2 . and near about 5000t of long tons reinforcement of steel. its floor 82 to 87 are marked by summit level useful for surveyor. its 88 level floor is an observation deck and 89th beautiful restaurant 90th level communication room and water tank at 91 floor.

foundation of this deck used 245 continuous auger piles of 0.75 m diameter and 28 board piles of 150cm were anchored 3m into siltstone due to presence of Yara river water table at 2m below ground.

glass of building is designed to reflect the heat in summer and retain in winter, glass skin is double glazing.

3} design and functioning of 120 collins street.

another tallest building of Australia is 120 collins street. it is also a skyscraper in collins street Melbourne victoria. it includes 50 levels for official work and 4 level for plantation. the owner of this property is invest property group its height up to 265m including antenna and roof 220m. this building having an floor count of 52 and covers the total floor area about 65000m^2. the floor to floor height is 3.85m. main contractor and designer of building is grocon and hassell daryal Jackson. this building is also called as empire state building and Chrysler building.building covered by granite. this building is home of BANK OF AMERICA, MERRILL LYNCH, BLACKROCK,ROTHSCHILD,KNIGHT FRANK, BLUESCOPE,RIO TINTO GROUP, CITIGROUP AND KORN FERRY etc. this building having luxury European boutiques and easy access to flinders lane, Chinatown and bourkee street.

4}brisbane sky tower

it is an another top heighten tower present in 222 Margaret street in Brisbane Queensland Australia. its height is near about 270.5

this is a residential building having total of 90 storey. it is the 4th tallest building inaustralia. its roof top height is 269.7m. flor to floor height is 3.78m . it covers total floor area near about 5600 m^2. the main contractor of the building is Hutchinson builders. this residential building includes 1138 apartments of single double and triple bedrooms also including sub penthouse and penthouse apartment , this building also having recreation deck, on 89th floor , Australias highest infinity edge swimming pool . it also having an excellent car parking, containing total of 980 spaces