Designed by the firm then known as Cox Rayner and completed in 2012, One One One Eagle Street forms the centrepiece of a trio of towers that mark Brisbane’s renowned Riverside Precinct.
The tower comprises 56 levels, 44 of which are for offices and contains an area of 64,000 m2..
The structure is designed to be read distinctively by oscillating illumination at night, and subtly by day respecting Harry Seidler’s adjoining towers.
A further aim was to create a new tower architectural typology which embodies the ‘subtropical river city’ and it has been universally recognised for this accomplishment.
It is one of Brisbane’s largest commercial buildings and has forever changed the city’s skyline with its state-of-the-art design.
The project occupies a site that comprises the loading docks and basement carpark access to the existing neighbouring towers either side.
The site’s constraint was the lack of bearing points due to those existing encumbrances.
From this constraint evolved a structural solution which defines the tower, a web of trunks and branches developed from an algorithm called ‘growing towards the light’.
This algorithm was chosen as it was not only significantly more efficient than other solutions but enabled a site-specific architecture to evolve, related to Brisbane’s most iconic Fig trees which foreground the site.
The base is split over two levels, the upper for corporate access enabling the ground to act as internal public plaza and dining space.
One One One Eagle Street received the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year at the 2013 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards and also secured awards for Commercial Architecture and Interior Architecture at the QLD State Architecture Awards in 2013.
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