Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’

The Gauge: 825 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour. Docklands

The Gauge is a six level office building developed in 2008 by Bovis Lend Lease through Lend Lease’s architects and BVN.

Architecturally the building is dictated by green design principles. The building extends lengthways down Merchant Street. The exterior is modern, curtain wall glass with metal shadesd. The most and features a large shade structure with a yellow coloured edge originating on the eastern side and cantilevering to the west over the top. This structure shields an internal atrium which runs up the east side of the building.

It was opened in August 2009 by John Lenders.1

  1. Docklands Community News, October 2009

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.

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