Furtado Sullivan was invited to compete in a design excellence competition for the worlds tallest timber hybrid tower. The site at the corner of Hunter and Pitt is adjacent to the future Hunter St Metro station, in the heart of Sydney. We wanted this project to hold a sense of humanity, to elevate the physical experience and bring an indigenous soul to this significant part of the city. We believe tall buildings can offer all of this, and we welcomed the opportunity to design with a deep sense of belonging, of place and, in this process meet the aspirations Milligan Group has for this site.

Our tower proposal is a place inspired by Sydney’s rich history and local environment; a place for gathering, dialogue, recreation, and enjoyment, a place that leads the way for how we all want to work and live in the future. Creating an identifiable silhouette that is imbued with character and is experienced from within the building, within the city and in the skyline. The tower facilitates social exchange, by creating a diversity of communal break out areas and spaces that can ‘breathe’ at different stratum of the tower. An active public domain is achieved by maximising visual and physical connectivity to the metro, and elevating the commercial lobby to maximise ground floor retail. The journey of arrival is bathed in natural light, landscape and the enveloping scent of timber.