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Collins Place Tower and Sofitel Hotel: Collins Street,

Building Profile

Name : Collins Place Tower and Sofitel Hotel

Location

Address: Collins Street
City:

Collins Place Tower and Sofitel Hotel is a landmark

Construction Details

Built: 1981
Original purpose (when built) : Club/Hotel/Coffee Palace

Height
(to roof) : 185
(to pinnacle) : 185
number of floors : 50

Built in the Eighties period in the Modern style

Notable features

A tall concrete modernist structure on a square plan at 45 degree angle to the city grid. Part of a two tower complex incorporating a hotel on the top 15 storeys.

History

Architect: Pei Cobb Freed and Partners

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