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The Ribbon is a hotel, apartment building, retail store and movie theatre located in
Construction on the new building started in 2017, was finished in 2022 and opened on 12 October 2023. The Ribbon was originally scheduled to be completed in 2020 but was delayed due by the bankruptcy of two of its builders,
The building has 588 rooms and suites and includes a rooftop heated infinity pool and wet deck with a two-storey bar, several other bars, a spa, a BTWN restaurant, meeting rooms and
IMAX SydneyThe Ribbon Hotel, Darling Harbour – Department of Planning & Environment
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Darling Harbour
Darling Harbour is a harbour and neighborhood adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that is made up of a large recreational and pedestrian precinct that is situated on western outskirts of the Sydney central busines ...
, Sydney
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. It contains the W Sydney hotel and IMAX Sydney
IMAX Sydney is an IMAX Movie theater, movie theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. It is the second largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere, and the third largest in the world. It is operated by Event Cinemas and is located wit ...
, the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world. The building is named The Ribbon due to its unusual ribbon-like appearance. On its northern and southern sides, the building is flanked by two carriageways of the Western Distributor.
History
The Ribbon is built upon the site of the oldIMAX
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theatre which was built in 1996 and was demolished after closing in 2016.
Construction on the new building started in 2017, was finished in 2022 and opened on 12 October 2023. The Ribbon was originally scheduled to be completed in 2020 but was delayed due by the bankruptcy of two of its builders, Grocon
Grocon is an Australian property development, property developer, construction, contractor and Investment management, funds management company that is privately owned by the Bruno Grollo, Grollo family. Founded in Melbourne in 1948, it expanded ...
and Probuild
Probuild was an Australian construction company that traded from 1987 until 2022.
History
Probuild was founded in 1987 by Phil Mehtren. In 2000 it was purchased by Wilson Bayly Holmes Ovcon. An attempt to sell the business to the China Commu ...
, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic
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. It was completed by Multiplex
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* Multiplex communication, combining many signals into one transmission circuit or channel
** Multiplex (television), a group of digital television or radio channels that are combined for broadcast
* ...
opening in October 2023.
Design
The building has 588 rooms and suites and includes a rooftop heated infinity pool and wet deck with a two-storey bar, several other bars, a spa, a BTWN restaurant, meeting rooms and IMAX Sydney
IMAX Sydney is an IMAX Movie theater, movie theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. It is the second largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere, and the third largest in the world. It is operated by Event Cinemas and is located wit ...
, a 325-seat cinema with the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world with a slightly curved screen which is or , that is also the second-tallest and fourth-largest screen ever built, surpassed only by the Melbourne IMAX theatre screen which measures , , the Traumpalast cinema hall in Leonberg
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, Germany
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which has a screen measuring , and the screen in the previous theatre building that it replaced, which measured , .https://www.insideconstruction.com.au/construction-features/the-marvels-of-glass-reinforced-concrete/
See also
*IMAX Sydney
IMAX Sydney is an IMAX Movie theater, movie theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. It is the second largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere, and the third largest in the world. It is operated by Event Cinemas and is located wit ...
References
External links
*IMAX Sydney
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Sydney
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2023 establishments in Australia