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Collins Place

Melbourne, Australia
Completed 1981

Two-tower mixed-use complex with office space, hotel, banquet and convention facilities, retail, public space
 

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Collins Place is an urban microcosm designed to invigorate Melbourne's fashionable Paris End throughout the day and into the night. It includes two 180m precast concrete towers set diagonally and linked by a 7,000m² space-framed public plaza surrounded by retail and entertainment. The 193,000m² project constitutes the largest, most complex mixed-use development in Australia.

The 45-story ANZ Bank Tower houses a three-story banking hall and corporate / tenant offices above. The adjacent 49-story Collins Tower offers 30 additional tenant floors, totaling more than 110,000m² of prime office space. At the top of Collins Tower a soaring 15-story atrium brings light and life into the center of a 400-room luxury hotel. At the bottom, a 750m² clear span ballroom accommodates 1,400 people. Uniting and animating the whole is the six-story Great Space, the skylit public heart of Collins Place, which attracts and orients visitors amid terraced shops, restaurants, cafes, cinemas and other recreational facilities.

Collins Place was designed to bring together the many activities of center city in such a way that they complement and reinforce each other for lasting economic, social and cultural benefit. Through the continuous interplay of its parts, the complex reinforces the dynamism and diversity, the concentration and convenience of downtown.

Major Components         

47,000m² ANZ Bank Tower with 3-story banking-hall and 53,000m² offices on 42 floors (1,000m² typical); 81,900m² Collins Tower with 60,000m² offices on 30 floors (1,700m² typical); 15-story 400-room luxury hotel; skylounge; 750m² Grand Ballroom; 400-seat auditorium; 7,000m² Great Space with retail / amenities; 5-levels underground parking for 750 cars.

I. M. Pei & Partners services

Master Planning; Architectural Design; Interior Design of Regent Hotel, ANZ Bank banking halls and boardroom floor, and all public spaces; coordination with associate architect on construction documents and construction administration

Associate Architect

Bates Smart & McCutcheon, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Planning

Vincent Ponte, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Structural

Weiskopf & Pickworth, New York, NY and
John Connell and Associates, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  

Planning

Vincent Ponte, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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