24 November marked the opening of Salesforce Tower at Sydney Place – the city’s tallest office tower. Designed by Foster + Partners, in collaboration with Architectus, Robert Bird Group and Arup, the 55-storey building is located between George and Pitt Streets in proximity to Sydney’s iconic harbour setting. At its base, the tower creates a new civic precinct comprising of pedestrian laneways, public artwork, and a new plaza on George Street. Nature often produces optimised structures that minimise energy or material use in organic forms. The tower’s triangulated form required an optimised structural design to efficiently transfer loads and provide torsional rigidity to resist lateral twist induced by the offset core. The resulting expressive braced structure is highly effective in utilising the full width of the tower, which has an unconventional triangulated floorplate. The use of lighter weight steel composite floors rather than a post-tensioned concrete system, which is conventional for Sydney, reduced the northern core wall thickness by approximately 25 percent, thereby significantly increasing the efficiency of the floorplate. Working within a constrained site, the tower’s column free layout creates a flexible floorplate that will support new ways of working in the 21st century, suitable for a range of organisations from new start-ups to large corporate entities. The tower’s offset core maximises harbour views to create a workplace that enables community, collaboration, wellbeing, and productivity to thrive. Salesforce Tower at Sydney Place also includes a network of pedestrian laneways that criss-cross the site at different levels. The laneways are lined with shops, cafes and bars, celebrating Sydney as a unique destination.
24 November marked the opening of Salesforce Tower at Sydney Place – the city’s tallest office tower. Designed by Foster + Partners, in collaboration with Architectus, Robert Bird Group and Arup, the 55-storey building is located between George and Pitt Streets in proximity to Sydney’s iconic harbour setting. At its base, the tower creates a new civic precinct comprising of pedestrian laneways, public artwork, and a new plaza on George Street. Nature often produces optimised structures that minimise energy or material use in organic forms. The tower’s triangulated form required an optimised structural design to efficiently transfer loads and provide torsional rigidity to resist lateral twist induced by the offset core. The resulting expressive braced structure is highly effective in utilising the full width of the tower, which has an unconventional triangulated floorplate. The use of lighter weight steel composite floors rather than a post-tensioned concrete system, which is conventional for Sydney, reduced the northern core wall thickness by approximately 25 percent, thereby significantly increasing the efficiency of the floorplate. Working within a constrained site, the tower’s column free layout creates a flexible floorplate that will support new ways of working in the 21st century, suitable for a range of organisations from new start-ups to large corporate entities. The tower’s offset core maximises harbour views to create a workplace that enables community, collaboration, wellbeing, and productivity to thrive. Salesforce Tower at Sydney Place also includes a network of pedestrian laneways that criss-cross the site at different levels. The laneways are lined with shops, cafes and bars, celebrating Sydney as a unique destination.
