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Identification
Name
Eureka Tower
Emporis Building ID
131515
Location
Main address
Riverside Quay 1
Address as text
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ZIP
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Zone
Southbank
Neighborhood
Southbank
District
City of Melbourne
City
Melbourne
State
Victoria
Country
Australia
Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data
Height (tip)
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Height (architectural)
297.28 m
Height (roof)
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Height (top floor)
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Height (observation floor)
282.00 m
Length
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Width
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Floors (above ground)
91
Floors (underground)
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Construction start
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Construction end
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Elevators
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Units
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Structure in General
Construction type
skyscraper
Current status
existing [completed]
Structural material
concrete
Facade system
curtain wall
Architectural style
modernism
Usages
Main usages
residential
Facts
Eureka Tower opened as the second tallest all-residential building in the world, surpassed only by Q1 Tower in Gold Coast City. Residences occupy floors 11 through 80.
Eureka Tower has the second highest apartments in the world, its highest being the 87th floor penthouse 278.5 meters above ground level. Only the John Hancock Center in Chicago has apartments higher than this.
The two lifts servicing the observation decks will be the fastest in Australia, travelling at nine meters per second and taking just over 30 seconds from the ground floor lobby.
Construction cost approximately $500 million (Australian).
The Eureka Skydeck on level 88 will be 282 meters above ground level, making it the highest public observatory in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere.
Level 89 of Eureka Tower tower contains a public function space and bar, 285.5 metres above the ground.
News
- Otis to supply elevators in world's tallest residential tower
- Proposed height extension to 351 metres for Eureka Tower
- Eureka Tower officially opens
Companies involved in this building

architect: Fender Katsalidis Architects

Other companies:
Eureka Tower Pty Ltd., Tract Landscape Architects, Grocon Constructors Pty Ltd, Otis Elevator Company Pty Ltd, Meinhardt (Australia), Norman Disney & Young, Norman Disney & Young, Norman Disney & Young, Norman Disney & Young, Golder Associates, Permasteelisa Pty Ltd., Connell Mott MacDonald, Vibro-Pile Pty. Ltd., MEL Consultants Pty Ltd.
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