MULTIPLEX has topped out Fragrance Group’s $315 million Premier Tower, a curved hotel and residential skyscraper rising 79 levels above the west end of Melbourne’s CBD.
Located on the corner of Spencer St and Bourke St and designed by high-profile architects Elenberg Fraser, the tower comprises a six-level podium with 172 hotel rooms and guest facilities including an exclusive pool, lounge, restaurant and bar, and 796 apartments above this in a range of one, two and three bedroom configurations.
Premier Tower stands at 246 metres above street level.
Some 35,000 cubic metres of concrete has been used on-site to date with a team of over 300 people working on the project. Engineering firm WSP and development managers PDS Group have also been part of the project team.
According to Multiplex, the wave design presented several challenges to construction with the changing floor plates and cantilevered slabs requiring innovative approaches to formwork and installation of the façade.
Exclusive facilities for Premier Tower residents will include an indoor heated pool, sauna, gymnasiums, barbeque areas, virtual golf, billiards and poker rooms and theatre rooms.
The latest round of the Victorian government’s development approval spree to kickstart the construction sector during the pandemic has included the $291 million, dual tower residential development that will kick off Lendlease’s Collins Wharf project at 938 Collins St in Docklands, featuring 668 apartments.
That followed the green light for Malaysia-backed Beulah International’s mammoth $2 billion tower has a proposed height of 368.1 metres that will become Australia’s tallest and includes 789 apartments, a 322-room hotel, 27,000 sqm of office space and 32,000 sqm of retail space; as well as approval for Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium’s 68 level, 857 apartment development on the Eliza Tinsley building site, just metres from Premier Tower.
