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The Grollo Tower was a proposed skyscraper development in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia. The developer was Grocon, a construction company owned by the Grollo family. Image File history File links Image-request. ... The Melbourne Docklands is a new inner city suburb and Urban renewal project in Melbourne, Australia. ... Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Grocon Pty Ltd is a major Australian construction company in Melbourne started and owned by the Grollo family. ...
With an original proposed height of 680 m, which was later scaled down to 560 m, the skyscraper would have been the world's tallest at that time. The proposed tower was designed by Denton Corker Marshall and an earlier concept, located on a different site, was designed by Harry Seidler. Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) are a major Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. ... Harry Seidler (born 1923) is an Austrian-born architect who works in Australia and is considered to be one of the leading architects of the modern movement there and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia. ...
The idea was scrapped in April 2001 after Melbourne's Docklands Authority ruled it out of the tender for development of the Batman Hill's precinct. The area is now occupied by a mixture of smaller commercial and residential buildings.
The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, who also designed the Sears Tower in Chicago and the unbuilt Freedom Tower in New York City, among numerous other famous high-rises.
As the tower rises from the flat desert base, setbacks occur at each element in an upward spiraling pattern, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky.
This tower, Al Burj (originally planned for the centre of Palm Jumeirah), is being developed by Al Nakheel and is keeping the height under wraps.
Developer Bruno Grollo was shattered in 1999 when the Victorian Kennett government scuppered his plans to build a 560 metre "monument to Melbourne" at the city's Docklands precinct.
The tower, to be named Burj Dubai, will be taller than both the 452 metre Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the 492 metre Shanghai World Financial Centre which is being built in China.
He said the tower was virtually "a carbon copy" of the 113 storey Melbourne proposal, which was to have included a luxury hotel, an observation deck for tourists, apartments, shops, offices and a $23 million bridge to Collins Street.
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