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Southbank by Beulah: The winning design for Australia's tallest tower revealed

Southbank by Beulah: The winning design for Australia's tallest tower revealed
Southbank by Beulah: The winning design for Australia's tallest tower revealed
Laurence Dragomir
 |  Aug 15,2018

The long-awaited winning design for the "Southbank by Beulah" design competition has been revealed - The Green Spine - a collaborative effort between UN Studio and COX Architecture.

Set to become Australia’s tallest tower at 356.2m, the winner was announced following an exhaustive six-month global search, which involved six of the world’s best architectural firms; BIG, Coop Himmelb(l)au, MAD Architects, MVRDV, OMA and UN Studio.

All partnered with local firms to propose varying and dramatic designs. UN Studio and COX Architecture's scheme is now likely to head toward planning.

Southbank by Beulah: The winning design for Australia's tallest tower revealed
The Green Spine in the Southbank skyline. Image: UN Studio and COX

Beulah International purchased the 6,061 sqm BMW Southbank site in 2017, with a vision to create an exemplar mixed-use development that would include retail, hotel, residential, commercial, cultural and public spaces of international standard. 

The six shortlisted designs were revealed at the Future Cities Symposium last month, and judged by seven highly regarded jury members including key figures from Australia’s architectural community and chaired by Victorian Government Architect Jill Garner.

To view each of the design entries in greater detail, please click through the links below to their respective articles on Urban.com.au:

Laurence Dragomir

Laurence Dragomir

Laurence Dragomir is one of the co-founders of Urban Melbourne. Laurence has developed a wealth of knowledge and experience working in both the private and public sector specialising in architecture, urban design and planning. He also has a keen interest in the built environment, cities and Star Wars.

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Chris
Chris (guest) 1 year ago
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Propeller City was the best design in my opinion! The green spine is just another normal box building "with a twist" ha... I hope the green spine doesn't get built. it takes away from the eureka tower and the 108. Hopefully they reconsider Propeller City. Cool looking building with a really different look. almost reminds me of the marina bay sands in singapore!
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Laurence Dragomir 1 year ago
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The apartments would need to comply with the Better Apartment Design Standards.
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jesse (guest) 1 year ago
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I personally liked the BIG design better but lets stop the charades and acknowledge the developers are going to build small overpriced apartments and pretend they are 6 star when really they are just overpriced jail cell. I like the architects and good design but not to just make giant profits for developers who know how to make a good marketing show.
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Anton Lawrence 1 year ago
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Couldn't have put it better Nicholas
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Nicholas Harrison 1 year ago
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I believe that this proposal will result in a far better outcome for Melbourne than if they had of built a couple of bland boxes that fit the restrictive planning controls and got waved through Council. Isn't this exactly what council wants at the end of the day? World class architecture that gives back to the community and public realm rather than just developers that do the absolute minimum to tick all the boxes? Also the only major variation required is to the mandatory setback / building envelope requirments which are the. The required setback from a side boundary of 21.6m and 10m from the street frontage is completely excessive and unjustified in this context. The FAR requirements are reasonable and can take into account public benefits (that should include retention of heritage buildings but that does not apply in this case.). It is the mandatory setback/ building envelope requirements that have significantly reduced development potential in the CBD for little additional benefit.
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