Building ProfileName : 333 Collins Street
LocationAddress: 333 Collins Street
City: MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3000
333 Collins Street is a landmark
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1990 - 1991
Original use: Office
Current use: Office
Height
(to roof) : 129
(to pinnacle) : 129
number of floors : 33Built in the Nineties period in the Post-Modern style
Notable features333 Collins Street is possibly the most ambitious of all post-modern projects from the 90s office boom.
The building is the latest reuse of a bank which dates back to 1891. The CBA building was significantly modified in the 1930s with a modern chicagoesque facade. The 333 Collins Street project maintains the original banking chamber dome of the CBA, via a complex feat of engineering. On top of this the building adds a mass of granite and glass in a step back form. The tower culminates in a copper dome reminiscent of Flinder Street station, making an impression on the skyline. The effect of cascading masses gives a picturesque sillhoutte to the building.
The Collins Street facade was again remodelled to a semblance of the original Victorian classical building, and a podiums which are sympathetic to neighbouring buildings. This gives the post-modern ability to be read as either a collection of buildings or the one. The new podium has a smaller version of the main dome, and elaborate ornamentation, with granite stonework and large brass lanterns. Internal corridors are also elaborately vaulted, with renaissance classical inspiration.
An impressive post-modern skyscraper which spares no expense in recreating the grandeur of Victorian Melbourne, whilst achieving a timelessness all of its own. HistoryArchitect: Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan
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