Aurora Place
Sydney, Australia

HEIGHT: 219m/718 feet
FLOORS: 41 floors
COMPLETION: 2000
ARCHITECT: Renzo Piano

This is a very special building, it is my favourite in Australia. 10/10 for sheer style and elegance, and for being diferent. Compliments the opera house very well.

http://www.ieaust.org.au/events/aeea/2001/aeea_entrants/res/images/aurora.jpg

http://www.kone.com.au/assets/images/Aurora.jpg

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the lobby- this building has balls!!

http://www.mrbamboo.com.au/ideas_and_places/australia/aurora_place/AuroraPlace_Large1.JPG

note the suspended glass roof- very cool.

8.5/10

Very stylish, I like it. Looks very optimistic.

Stunning curve with a clever set-back

9/10

8 for a very interesting and clever design. it also has some height

wow, cool...what a weird and cool design. 8/10

Innovative. I dig the shininess. 8.5/10.

fantastic. 9/10

My favourite building in Sydney. An outstanding design which attempts to blend in with it's surrounds. Wish it could of been as tall as the surrounding towers.

9.5/10

Absolutely beautiful.
9/10

Innovative design!Real original style.
And i love it's balls :) :? Huh? ;)
8.5/10

4 Looks like Picasso designed it... way too random and disjointed for my tastes!

7.5/10

great tower with its smooth facade 9/10

8

although, I cant help but always look at it and think that it's turning its back on the rest of the city - very much inwards looking etc....

looks fat, is white, shines sometimes, clean, weird design, has balls. 8.5/10

Im not particularly impressed by this one...but for the effort..7.5/10.

looks great, possibly my favorite in australia

Looks good, 8/10

this is design. 9/10

i like it
9/10

8/10 - OK, it's NOT a box, which is a relief - and I like the way he facade can dance with the light, and the graceful knife-edged curve of the tower. There's also good contrast between windows and facade, and I like the way that one section of facade is carried beyond the building's edge, like a fan...Seen from the slim side, it has a clean, soaring form that really catches the eye.

On the other hand, broadside-on, it looks a bit chunky and chaotic...

6.5/10

Not my type.

facade: ok
form: ok, maybe a bit too wide
specials: those additions on the top i really don't like
points: 6

This building is cool! My bro and i call it the 'i-mac' building because honestly i dont know what this building is made from but it honestly looks like its made from the same stuff that are on i-macs!! Its so cool. It got ok height as well and is really modern and shiny.
Finally this building has balls! WOW.
9.5/10

imac good name
I love the spire that reaches from many floors below the roof line upwards !

Looks like it's still in the "lazy first sketch" phase....

4/10

9/10


great design

Great tower and nice facade

10/10

8.5/10

love it!

9/10

Beautiful form, sleek and nice curve. Wish it was taller....

Great building. 9.0

Pictures by Fabian

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The ABN-Amro logo does it :)

The 90+m spire does it for me.

The lobbies/entrances are to sterile for my liking (some may say austere). However, some interesting panelling and a hanging mobile to boot!:

http://194.185.232.3/works/042/pictures/15big.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/37916big.jpg

Originally posted by tayser Although, I cant help but always look at it and think that it's turning its back on the rest of the city - very much inwards looking etc.... I totally disagree. It's very much forward looking. As it has been mentioned already, Renzo Piano's huge curved fin was to pay compliments/homage to the Sydney Opera House.

A reasonable 8 for me. Justifying myself here, but hey so what!?!. It's not all-time my favourite Sydney tall. However, there are many more to come :) in the not-to-distant future.

So what is your favourite Sydney tall Muse? :)

Will PM you in regard to your question RafflesCity :okay: as I don't want to hijack this thread naming other Sydney talls i.e. not the appropriate thread to do so. It's about Aurora Place Tower :)

I just love this one! :eek: :happy:

9.5/10

this one's too curvy for my liking, and the spire's just plain cheating...and it killed sydney's once tallest too. one of my least liked buildings in oceania.

6

Wow, daring sail-like design, with an unusual pearly white colour. The spire tops it off well. 8.5/10

8/10

In one of the Sydney scraper canyons:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3036/379chifleytalls3.jpg

...and the glass fin:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/379aurorafin1.jpg

I don't like this building. It's a cheat and looks very bad in Sydney. It also looks a little cheap and doesn't seem tall enough but heck it wouldn't look good to me at any height or colour. I give it some points for uniqness though but if you ask me the person who desighned this building seems very weird. 3/10

Nice, sharp design. Could use a bit more "soar" though.

8/10

9,5/10 - Nice skyscraper!

Nice shape. 8.5

7/10

love this building, most offices have louvered windows, so you can get a breeze on most of the floors in staff kitchens, seats etc, well thought out, but a bit short and a bit orange though!

Wow, a truly mezmerizing building. Has some great design features. I give it a 9/10. :okay:

Very cool, has many different features, clean sharp look
8/10

9/10....jus' can't stop luvin it

It was always Renzo Piano's intention for Aurora's curved fin to pay
homage to The Sydney Opera House, as seen in this pic by CULWULLA:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/126aurorasparkle1-med.JPG

Another pic by CULWULLA:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126aurora-med.jpg


...and ablaze @ night:

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***Click here to see 24 pics over 3 pages of Aurora Place (http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=108310&aid=8&sro=1)

:cheers:

8.5/10
Great design.

6/10

8.5/10

4.

8/10.

good design, 8.5/10

Looking good. 8.5/10.

8/10

Definitely my favourite Sydney building. When I was visiting I only managed to get two photo's of it and they were similar to Culwullas from the obsevation deck in The Sydney Tower

http://tinypic.com/5yxf1k

and you can see it to the right of this pic after zooming in
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9.5/10 btw

7/10

very nice, 8.5/10

What a stunner! 9/10.

8/10

OoOO!

8/10 Nice design.

Nice, 8/10

wow 9.5/10

Really nice design. Looks fresh :cool: 9/10

fantastic.

9.5/10

Original 7/10

8,5 / 10

Elegant, interesting roof.

4.5/10

10/10

nice...9.5/10

cool design. 8/10

Very nice design but a little short. Could have used another 50m.

nice landmark building. Should have been the tallest. 10

8.5/10

8.5/10 (+0.5 for eggs)

What an amazing work of art. 8.5

8.5/10

7.5/10

8/10. I like the design! :happy:

9.5/10 beautiful facade, Good curve, The pinnacle is attractive and goes well with the rest of the building, and i just picked up that its a twister, on the edge it slowly turns and the goes all the way up to the top. very subtle on the twist. for that from an 8.5 up to a 9.5

7.5/10

little bit to wide 8/10 nice design though

8/10

8/10

i like.. mmm.. 8.5/10

looks a little bit small but it's good 8.5/10

9/10

I like it!

8.5

9.

8/10

I like it really cool looking building, it's not over done like some of the other buildngs and it fits in with it's surroudnings, not out of place or anything.

8/10

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this bldg talks to the Opera house.lol
very special bldg this one.Real nice in Real life.
10/10
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6924/aurorashellof3.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8296/aurorasparkleyz1.jpg

I like it, I'll give it an 8. :scouserd:

8/10

It's nice.. 9!!

9/10.

8.5/10

Nice and new, but not eye cathcing for me. 7/10

10/10

9/10

8.5/10 nice

9/10, good one for Sydney

9/10.

8/10 Nice facade

8/10

Heavy on artistic pretentions and rebellious deviations; light on considerations of the actual result and cost.

The building has neither good aesthetics nor good functionality. A bad return on investment.

3/10.

7.5/10

8.5/10

9/10

Looks very elegant. Suits Sydney very well.

Beautiful. One of the best half dozen bldgs in one of the top 10 skylines IMO.

my favourite new tower in Aus - 10 for unusual design and its resemblence to Opera house and Location !!

nice curves...mmmm

8.5/10

9/10

7/10

8/10 - LOL at the balls comment.

8/10

7.5/10

6/10

7/10

10/10

7/10

Very stylish, I like it.

i'll give it a 8/10 cos it has balls!

love it 9

10/10

awesome 8/10

Great!!

9/10

8.5/10 :)

8/10

9/

8/10

8.5/10

8/10

10/10

8.5/10

8.5/10

A piece of art!

9.5/10

9.5/10

9. Very good building. Regards.

8/10

9/10

voted 8/10 nice windows

8/10

Too much of the height is devoted to the spire, but the rest of the building is very nice.

9/10

One of Sydney's better recent buildings, but the glazing is hamhanded. 7

9/10

7.5

8/10

9/10

Looks savage and cheap. 3.5/10

10/10

I voted a 10. For me, there are very, very few buildings that deserve such high praise. However, I feel this should be one of them.

Those who write negatively about it have obviously not had the honour to sit on the cove of the Botanical Gardens at sunset and see it in its full glory. I spent a 5 nights in Sydney in 2006, and I think I spent 3 of those nights sat watching the sunset over these towers. I would say it was one of my all time favourites.

7/10 nice building.

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Uhm, an 8/10.

nice design, elegant 9/10

Wondefrul building! 9/10

I don't like the orange, but still 8.5/10

8/10 I like it :cheers:

8/10

Nice looking tall...8/10

7/10

8.5/10 i love the curve :okay:

5/10

9/10

8/10

8/10

9.5/10.