Brookfield Place is a skyscraper within the Brookfield Place office complex in Perth, Western Australia. It is currently the second tallest building in Western Australia. Located at 125

St Georges Terrace St Georges Terrace (colloquially known as "The Terrace") is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major arterial road through the central business district. Its western e ...

, the major tenant is BHP. Construction commenced in April 2008 and was completed in 2012. The project is estimated to have cost around A$500 million. Other tenants include

PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting ...

Allianz Allianz ( , ) is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. The company is one of the world's largest insurers and financial services groups. The ...

Barrick Gold Barrick Gold Corporation is a mining company that produces gold and copper with 16 operating sites in 13 countries. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has mining operations in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Democrati ...

, Navitas and

Servcorp Servcorp Limited is a multinational organisation that sells Serviced offices, Serviced Offices, Virtual office, Virtual Offices, Coworking, Coworking Spaces, Meeting room, Meeting Rooms, Community, Community Packages, and IT services, IT Servic ...

. Developers Brookfield lodged a development application for the second stage of Brookfield Place in July 2011, for a 16-storey office tower to be situated to the south of the main tower fronting Mounts Bay Road. Tower 2 was completed in 2015, with major tenants including Multiplex, Westpac, Wesfarmers, Ashurst, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Deloitte. Retail tenants in the Brookfield Place complex include Montblanc and Daniel Hechter.

History

* 1986 -

Laurie Connell Lawrence Robert "Laurie" Connell (died 27 February 1996) was a Western Australian business entrepreneur. As chairman of the Rothwells merchant bank, he was well known for his dealings with the Government of Western Australia and his close relat ...

and

Alan Bond Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time ...

both buy 25% stakes in the site in 1986 in partnership with the State Superannuation Board. * 1988 - The site, then called

Perth Technical College Central Institute of Technology was a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institution based in Perth, Western Australia until 2016 when it became a part of North Metropolitan TAFE. It was the equal oldest post-secondary educational institution ...

, sold to

Kerry Packer Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...

and Warren Anderson for $270 million. One office building on what was renamed "Westralia Square" was constructed. The development is mired in WA state politics, and the deal will later be scrutinised in detail by the

WA Inc Royal Commission WA Inc was a political scandal in Western Australia. In the 1980s, the state government, which was led for much of the period by premier Brian Burke, engaged in business dealings with several prominent businessmen, including Alan Bond, Laurie ...

. Kerry Packer famously declares: "All West Australians are crooks." * 1990s - A $2 billion development by Indonesia's Samma Group collapses. * 2003 - Kerry Packer sells the site to Multiplex and Stowe for $19 million, taking a loss of $200 million. Multiplex and Griffin have agreed to carve up the Westralia Square property. Griffin has a smaller area on Mounts Bay Road and Multiplex has the prime location fronting

. * December 2007 - BHP signs the biggest office leasing deal in Perth's history—. * March 2008 - Perth's Lord Mayor announces that BHP will be headquartering in Perth, and their Melbourne operations will be significantly downgraded. (This is confirmed in August 2014).

Design

Brookfield Place Tower is the tallest side core commercial building in the southern hemisphere. Designed by Hassell and Fitzpatrick + Partners, it included the restoration of the surrounding historic Newspaper House Group of Buildings, comprising four heritage-listed buildings, constructed between 1910 and 1932. The offset core protects the enclosed space by buffering the façade against the adverse northern sun and the associated solar heat gain. Externally, the expressive structural east and west exoskeletons create the distinctive tower aesthetic. The vertical expression of the tower structure accentuates the height of the building, which terminates in a tapered structural roof crown. BHP Tower 3

Tower 2 was designed by Woods Bagot. It features large column-free floor plates of approximately . The project also incorporates a sheltered upper-level walkway across Mounts Bay Road to provide greater connectivity between the Elizabeth Quay bus station,

Elizabeth Quay railway station Elizabeth Quay railway station, formerly known as Esplanade station, serves the southern end of Perth's central business district including Elizabeth Quay and the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is part of the Transperth network. ...

and Perth's CBD.

Gallery

File:BHP tower gnangarra-10.jpg, File:E37 Elizabeth Quay (1Feb2016) 46.JPG, File:Brookfield Place Perth tower from sw.jpg, File:Brookfield Place (Perth) tower from nw.jpg, File:From the west on a sunday.jpg,

References

External links

Brookfield Place official Website

BHP Tower on Emporis, the skyscraper database

TPG website

Hassell website

fitzpatrick+partners website
{{BHP Skyscrapers in Perth, Western Australia Office buildings in Perth, Western Australia St Georges Terrace Skyscraper office buildings in Australia Retail buildings in Western Australia Brookfield Properties buildings Office buildings completed in 2012 Modernist architecture in Australia

History

Design

Gallery

See also

References

External links