Seven17 Bourke: 717 Bourke Street, Docklands

Seven17 Bourke is an 18 storey 40,000 sqm 5-star green office building12.  Construction began in 2007 and the building was completed and opened in 2011.  It was designed by Metier 3 and constructed by Probuild3 as  a new  home of the Channel 9 television network at a cost of $190 million.


Seven17 Bourke as viewed from the east on Bourke Street pedestrian bridge


The tower sits on a podium which extends to the property line of the unusually shaped site while the square tower’s facade is articulated by a series of stacked curtain walled planes skewed on a central axis, each representing two levels and dotted with irregularly spaced glass mullions.

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