Quay Quarter Tower by 3XN
Quay Quarter Tower has been named the winner of "World Building of the Year" at World Architecture Festival 2022. Located on the edge of Sydney’s bustling Circular Quay, the tower “upcycles” the existing AMP Centre tower. The 206-meter, 49 story Quay Quarter Tower (QQT) is a once-in-a-generation project. Transformation is a sustainable initiative, and for Quay Quarter Tower, there are three levels of sustainability: Environmental, Social, and Urban. The First, environmental sustainability, focuses on two main features.
The first is a facade with an external sunshade hood, which blocks 30% of the solar radiance, reducing mechanical loads and eliminating the need for internal blinds for thermal control. The second form of environmental sustainability is to retain 2/3 of the existing structure. The former gives the building a strong identity and texture to the building envelope, while the second, less visible, it upcycles an older building asset, giving it new life and reinvigorating the surrounding precinct. This leverages the existing infrastructure of the building and urban environment to sustain a precinct and revitalize it, giving new life to a formerly tired precinct.
Quay Quarter Tower is composed of five stacked and shifted volumes; the lower floors face the bustling Young Street and Harbour Bridge, and fan out eastwards as they climb to frame panoramic views onto the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Sydney Opera House. Working within the solar envelope and other contextual constraints, the design adds approximately 45,000m2 of new construction, primarily on the north side of the building by grafting on new floorplates to the existing slabs. Source by 3XN.
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