‘Leaning tower of Adelaide’ secures approval and set to be city’s tallest residential building
Adelaide’s highest residential building – dubbed the “leaning tower of Adelaide” – has been approved, with construction on the 22-storey project to start next year.
Datong Australia will construct the $120 million building on the corner of Flinders and Pulteney streets. It will be 75 metres high.
The pricing of the 149 apartments, which will range from 50 to 85 square metres, has yet to be released, but last year the developer gave indications they were expected to range between $300,000 and $1.2 million. Its off-the-plan marketing will begin mid-year. The approval process was lengthy, finally securing permission this week the state government's Development Assessment Commission, as it exceeded the area's 40-metre height limit.
The Pruszinski Architects-designed building will have 60% of units on building corners.
Director Paul Pruszinski has said the design resembled a pile of papers being picked up and fanning out from pinching fingers. The highest residential tower in Adelaide is currently credited as the 1970-built King William Tower, which is 20 floors and 70 metres high, followed by the more recent 62-metre-high Conservatory on Hindmarsh, which was completed in 2009.
Datong Australia’s parent company, Datong China, is based in Yunnan province, located in the far south west of the country.
It has been developing since the 1980s. Datong is a combination of two Chinese words or concepts. “Da” means large or leading, while “tong” is a metaphor for a smoothened road.
Datong also had a seven-storey Adelaide apartment building on Gouger Street approved this week.
“Datong intends to become a leading player in the development and rejuvenation of the Adelaide CBD,” Datong Australia chairman Jin Liang told the Australian Financial Review last year.
