Melbourne
Seven-Tower TOD Greenlit in Melbourne’s Box Hill
Through the Fast-Track Program of the Victoria, Australia, government, Vicinity Centres has won approval for a masterplan that includes seven towers ranging from 19 to 50 stories that will deliver...
Kübler Opens Australia Sales Office in Melbourne
Kübler Group, headquartered in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, recently announced its new Australian sales office. Based in Melbourne, Kübler's Australia sales operations are being led by Managing Director (MD) Jason Bouyer with...
Plans Filed for Project Include Australia’s Tallest Tower
Amidst escalating construction costs and a crippling labor shortage, a Melbourne consortium has filed plans for Australia’s tallest tower on the Gold Coast, The Urban Developer reports. The AUD$400-million proposal...
Plans submitted for Melbourne CBD Skyscraper
London-based Wilkinson Eyre has submitted proposals for a 180-m tall skyscraper in Melbourne’s CBD that the design team says will transform a swathe of the area, Building Design reports. The...
Commercial Tower Envisioned Over Historic Melbourne Venue
Developer LaSalle Investment Management hopes to build a AUD200-million (US$138.6 million) cantilevered 35-story tower above Melbourne, Australia’s heritage-listed Comedy Theatre, which has been operating at 222-240 Exhibition Street since the...
Parents, Young Children Rescued from Australia Lift
Firefighters in Melbourne, Australia, used a crowbar to free a number of parents and their young children who had become trapped in a lift at a major tourist attraction, The...
Four Seasons To Occupy Australia’s Future Tallest Tower
A Four Seasons hotel plans to occupy the top floors of a 273-m-tall tower that will be joined by a 365-m-tall tower — Australia's future tallest — forming the AUD2.7-billion...
Tall building news from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
Sydney Building Failures Prompt New Regulations on Developers In the wake of high-profile failures at two multistory residential buildings in Sydney, regulators in New South Wales (NSW) have been granted...
Major contract for Schindler in Melbourne;183-m-tall builiding for Sydney
Schindler to Supply 176 Units for Melbourne Metro Schindler has won a contract to supply 103 escalators and 73 elevators for the Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, largest-ever public transportation...
Perth, Melbourne and Sydney see major projects.
Country’s First thyssenkrupp iwalks Installed at Airports Australia’s first thyssenkrupp iwalks, including two of the longest ever produced at 92 m, are being installed at the Perth and Melbourne airports,...
