The tower’s overall form acknowledges the scale of nearby existing buildings, like the original Hilton hotel, before extending above to create a strong visual landmark on the city skyline. It recognises different height datums within the city. A matrix of sunshades that read as individual petals wrap the tower, with gradients in colour and density to suit solar orientation and urban context.
150 Elizabeth
An office building that is rethinking the workplace.
150 Elizabeth, in Brisbane, connects the historic city with the contemporary, and brings landscape to the foreground of the new flexible cultures of work. Upon arrival, sub-tropical planting is immediately evident and immersive.
- Traditional Custodians Turrbal and Yuggera people of Meanjin
- Client ISPT
- Location Brisbane, Queensland
- Project Duration 2017 –
- Floor Levels 42
- Floor Area 59,224m2
Within the workplaces above, three major garden spaces - on top of podium, embedded in the tower and at roof top - are available to tenants and visitors. It feels like working next to a park. Smaller pocket gardens dot the tower façade.
At ground level 150 Elizabeth completes the Wintergarden precinct, plugging into its retail environment, and connecting Elizabeth Street with the Queen Street Mall. The new podium and tower consolidates what will be a dense, active and vital microcosm of the larger city.
