{"id":132476,"date":"2010-01-03T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1037343"},"modified":"2010-01-03T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:50:01","slug":"chifley-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/132476","title":{"rendered":"Chifley Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sydney was very lucky to get this one.<\/p>\n

This was the idea of Alan Bond in 1988 and was originally known as the Bond Tower. However the D\/A had to be sold as Bond Corp collapsed during the late 1980’s.<\/p>\n

June 22 1988 SMH Article announcing Bond’s plan.<\/p>\n

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1989 Advert from The Sydney Morning Herald<\/p>\n

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Three years later, this one would adorn the city skyline adding class and style to the financial heart of town.<\/p>\n

Basic Facts<\/font>:<\/b><\/p>\n

Year:<\/b> 1991
\nHeight:<\/b> 244 metres
\nFloors:<\/b> 50
\nArchitect:<\/b> Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.<\/p>\n

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Key Facts<\/font>:<\/b>
\nSourced from Emporis.com<\/i><\/p>\n

*Chifley Tower is one of the most prestigious office and retail complexes in Australia.
\n*A 3 metre lightning rod was added to the spire in 2000, bringing the official height to 244 meters.
\n*The tip of spire is 270 meters above sea level.
\n*To counteract the building sway in high winds, a giant steel block pendulum weighing 400 tonnes is suspended from eight 75 mm diameter steel wires located near the top floor. This is connected to a hydraulic dampened gravity system, thus stabilizing the super-structure in high winds.
\nChifley Tower was the first fully steel-framed skyscraper in Sydney since the 1970s.
\n*Level 41 Restaurant is situated 185m above street level. It was originally intended to be the penthouse for Alan Bond.
\n*The tower is built on one of Sydney’s most elevated sites.
\nChifley Tower appears as a conglomeration of features from 333 Wacker Drive, 225 West Wacker and 311 South Wacker, all of which were designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney was very lucky to get this one. This was the idea of Alan Bond in 1988 and was originally known as the Bond Tower. However the D\/A had to be sold as Bond Corp collapsed during the late 1980’s. June 22 1988 SMH Article announcing Bond’s plan. 1989 Advert from The Sydney Morning Herald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}