Cox Architecture has designed a tower in Adelaide’s city centre set to become the world’s tallest timber hotel.
To be located at 187 Victoria Square, the proposed tower will sit behind and on top of the existing building also known as Beacon House, which has been described as Adelaide’s first post-war skyscraper.
Covering 31 storeys and rising 100 metres above the ground, the tower will accommodate 324 hotel rooms, 22 apartments, a “sky terrace” on the twelfth level, and a rooftop bar.
Designs for world’s tallest timber tower proposed for 187 Victoria Square, Adelaide CBD.
Image: Cox Architecture
Cox has designed the tower to be built out of cross-laminated timber – a product that is 25 percent of the weight of traditional building materials – and green steel. Developer Thrive Construct said it worked with the architect to develop a structure that is entirely carbon neutral and constructed from renewable, Australian-supplied plantation pine and green steel.
Plans involve the prefabrication of the cross-laminated timber offsite, which will be delivered in modules for later onsite assemblage.
The current proposal is an evolution of a 2017 scheme for the site which proposed a 30-storey, 110-metre residential building also designed by Cox Architecture for a different development group – which failed to get off the ground.
Thrive Construct said it will be selecting a preferred hotelier to target a “millennial market” once the tower is open in 2024.
