Star Casino selects FJMT spiral as design winner
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020
The Star Entertainment Group’s new six-star hotel planned for Sydney has selected a winning design.
It is the FJMT design for its Pyrmont site.
It was the most dramatic tower with a spiral twist, which some have already suggested looks like an askew stack of silver Star casino gaming chips.
The $500 million tower marks the return to the NSW capital of Marriott's premium Ritz-Carlton brand which will rival Crown's planned 71-storey tower across Darling Harbour at Barangaroo.
FJMT's design was chosen out of a competition that pitted it against local rival BVN and UK-based Grimshaw Architects.
Local sandstone will feature in the base of the building and will fade out out as the tower rises.
Jonathan Chancellor
Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.