Australian architecture firm Elenberg Fraser is moving forward with a new $350 million AUD ($223 million USD) high-rise tower in Perth on the country's west coast that could set the record as the world’s tallest mass timber structure once completed.
Plans for the new 627-foot C6 Tower were approved last week by the city’s Metro Inner-South Joint Development Assessment Panel (JDAP) for client Grange Development.
The firm’s newly-formed research arm Fraser & Partners will be leading the project and says their hybrid steel frame and wood design will utilize a total of 9,678 cubic yards of locally sourced timber in its construction. At 50 stories, it is more than twice the size of the Milwaukee Ascent Tower and another 11 stories taller than SHoP’s forthcoming 39-stroy Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney. Grange says it will be the first carbon-negative construction in the history of Western Australia, though some academics caution this is misleading under current IPCC guidelines.
"C6 will establish a new benchmark for environmentally conscious design. We're immensely proud of our open-source approach to all documentation and construction details because we genuinely wish for others to understand our methodology and possess the blueprint to emulate, modify, and progress it," Grange Development's Director James Dibble said in a press statement.
The design, which uses a reinforced concrete core, calls for 237 total residential units, a 37,673-square-foot edible rooftop garden, dining, and entertainment areas. An 80-car fleet of self-driving Tesla Model 3's will be included as well, along with a ground-level public realm that totals 4,703 square feet. Rainwater retention and other interventions will add to the building's sustainability bonafides. C6 will also be run on 100% renewable energy, according to its developers.
The project was named a winner in the Future Project category of the 2023 CTBUH Award of Excellence program in June. Elenberg Fraser's 68-story Premier Tower in Melbourne has also garnered awards recognition in the past year. No construction timelines for the C6 project were made available at press time.
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Unfortunately this is lookinng like the context is not a part of the solution; stick to designing in a vacuum.
Too often, the context is completely ignored in modern work. It's as if there where no faith in the larger whole, just a 'look at me!' ethos and the hell with the rest.
I always find it weird when projects use mass timber with plenty of steel in order to reach headline heights.
Makes you miss the promise of Corbusian free plan -- somehow SHoP has reverted to jewel box classicism. Time to rediscover the beauty of classic modernism.
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