Eureka Tower is a 91-storey high residential building, located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. Construction began in August 2002 and the exterior completed on June 1, 2006. The plaza was finished in June 2006 and the building was officially opened on October 11, 2006. The project was designed by Melbourne architectural firm Fender Katsalidis Australia and was built by Grocon (Grollo Australia). The developer of the tower was Eureka Tower Pty Ltd, a joint venture consisting of Daniel Grollo (Grocon), investor Tab Fried and one of the Tower's architects Nonda Katsalidis. The tower is the world's tallest residential tower up to its highest floor but The Q1 located on the Gold Coast, Australia is officially the world's tallest residential building when counting its spire. ^[3] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 448 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1712 × 2288 pixel, file size: 778 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Fender Katsalidis (FKA) is an architecture firm in Melbourne, Australia. ... Southbank is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fender Katsalidis (FKA) is an architecture firm in Melbourne, Australia. ... Nonda Katsalidis (born 1951, Athens) is an award winning Australian architect. ... For other uses, see Q1. ...

Name

Eureka Tower in Southbank

The Eureka Tower is named after the Eureka Stockade, a rebellion during the Victorian gold rush in 1854. This has been incorporated into the design, with the building's gold crown representing the gold rush and a red stripe representing the blood spilt during the revolt. The blue glass cladding that covers most of the building represents the blue background of the stockade's flag and the white lines also represent the eureka stockade flag. Southbank is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. ... The Eureka Flag The Eureka Stockade was the setting of a gold miners revolt in 1854 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, against the officials supervising the mining of gold in the region. ... For other uses, see Rebel (disambiguation) and Rebellion (disambiguation). ... Nerrena Fossickers in Nerrena Creek outside Ballarat The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria in Australia between approximately 1851 and the late 1860s. ...

Height

When measured either by the height of its roof, or by the height of its highest habitable floor, Eureka Tower is the tallest residential building in the world. It is also currently the building with the most floors available for residential occupancy in the world. The building stands 297.3 meters in height (300 m above sea level), with 91 storeys above ground plus one basement level. It is one of only six buildings in the world with 90 or more storeys but is merely the 38th tallest building in the world, because it does not have a spire or antenna, as well as the fact that apartment buildings generally require less height between floors than office buildings. It is also the tallest building in Melbourne, eclipsing the Rialto Towers, and hence Australia. The single level basement and first 9 floors contain car parking. The building's proximity to the water table as well as the Yarra River made a basement carpark uneconomic to construct. There are a total of 84 floors of apartments (including some floors shared between car parking and apartments) with the remainder being used for building facilities and the observation deck. Rialto Towers (often The Rialto) is the second-tallest reinforced concrete building and the tallest office building in the Southern Hemisphere, when measured to its roof. ... Parking lot is the American English term that refers to a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. ... Cross section showing the water table varying with surface topography as well as a perched water table The water table or phreatic surface is the surface where the water pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... In architecture, a deck is a constructed flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor but typically constructed outdoors and usually (though not always) connected to a building. ...

Melbourne's Eureka Tower

The 78-storey Q1 apartment tower in Gold Coast, Queensland has also been described as the tallest residential building in the world due to its spire, which reaches a height of 322.5m. According to the ranking system developed by the US-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Q1 qualifies as the taller building only in two of the four categories in which heights are ranked, namely Pinnacle Height and Architectural Top, while the Eureka Tower is taller in the other two categories, Roof Height and Highest Occupied Floor. For comparison, the Q1 building has its top floor at a height of 235m, some 62 metres lower than Eureka's roof. The Eureka Tower had plans to create a mast on the top so it would be taller than the Q1 building in Gold Coast, Queensland. But these plans have been quiet ever since it has been completed. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (380x1000, 284 KB) Summary Eureka Tower, Melbourne, Australia viewed from the north. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (380x1000, 284 KB) Summary Eureka Tower, Melbourne, Australia viewed from the north. ... For other uses, see Q1. ... For other places with the same name, see Gold Coast. ... Slogan or Nickname: Sunshine State, Smart State Motto(s): Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Anna Bligh (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd... The Council on Tall buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) was founded at Lehigh University in 1969. ... This page refers to Q1, a residential tower on the Gold Coast, Australia. ... Gold Coast redirects here. ...

Construction

Eureka Tower with the view of Melbourne panorama towards Mount Dandenong

Albert Park, as seen from the observation deck.

The tower was built using reinforced concrete using a slipform method. Eureka Tower's lift core superseded the height of Rialto Towers on November 9, 2004. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... Mount Dandenong from Mooroolbark Mount Dandenong as seen from Kilsyth Mount Dandenong is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926–1933 Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete in some countries, is concrete in which reinforcement bars (rebars) or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle. ... Slipform construction is a method for building large towers or bridges from concrete. ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On May 23, 2006, the crane on top of the tower was dismantled by a smaller crane, which was dismantled by a smaller crane that could be taken down the service elevator. is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Eureka Tower has 24 carat (100%) gold plated glass windows on the top 10 floors of the building. Installation of the gold glass was completed in March 2006. Apartment owners and tenants had taken up residence in the building between Ground Level and Level 80 as at July 2006.

The Summit levels, floors 82 to 87, contain only one apartment per floor: each apartment had an original price tag of A$7 million just for the empty space; Purchasers were required to fit out the apartment at additional cost.

On October 11, 2006, the tower was officially opened by then-Victorian Premier Steve Bracks.^[4] is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... VIC redirects here. ... List of Premiers of Victoria Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Victoria. ... Stephen Philip Bracks (better known as Steve Bracks) (born 15 October 1954), Australian politician, was the 44th Premier of Victoria, holding the position for eight years, from 1999 to 2007. ...

Observation deck

The Sun sets on Eureka Tower.

On January 10, 2005, Grocon, the firm building Eureka Tower, proposed adding a 53.75 m communications mast/observation tower. The proposal is currently before the local planning commission. This mast would be a significant structure, used for providing an adventure climb to the tip of the summit – the highest observation area in the Southern Hemisphere. is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On April 16, 2006, a new proposal was announced that the construction company and developers were considering options for the building to have a "skywalk" that would take daring people up 350 metres high. The proposed structure may also house a communication tower. is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Eureka Tower Skydeck looking West.

The observation deck (Skydeck) is situated on the 88th floor and is the highest public vantage point (285m/935 ft) in the southern hemisphere. It opened to the public on May 15, 2007. There is also a glass cube that extracts itself from the building to hang over the edge of the tower. Riding in the movable cube incurs an additional cost to the entry price of SkyDeck. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 683 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View inside Eureka Tower Skydeck looking West. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 683 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View inside Eureka Tower Skydeck looking West. ... is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

The Edge

Skydeck 88 also features 'The Edge' - a glass cube which projects 3 metres out from the building - with visitors inside - suspended almost 300 metres above the ground. When you enter, the glass is opaque as the cube moves out over the edge of the building. Once fully extended over the edge, the glass becomes clear to the sounds of smashing glass and machine malfunctions.^[5]

'The Edge' is easily accessible by wheelchair; children 7 years or under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Every "edge" patron can also purchase a picture of themselves within the edge.

Gallery

Close up view of the tower Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 635 KB) Summary Eureka Tower, Melbourne. ...	Eureka Tower during construction Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (800x1385, 601 KB) Summary Photo taken 23 October 2005 by myself, Salamagd (http://en. ...	View of the tower from Federation Square Image File history File links Size of this preview: 451 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1060 × 1408 pixel, file size: 203 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Created by myself on 16/8/2006. ... Federation Square (also colloquially known as Fed Square) is a cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ...	View from the north side Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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References

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External links

• Official website
• Official construction photo gallery
• Eureka Tower Observation Deck Website
• Eureka Tower apartments
• Emporis Page
• Eureka Tower in the Structurae database

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