Durbach Block Jaggers Designs Australia’s Thinnest “Pencil” Skyscraper


Courtesy of Durbach Block Jaggers Architects

Courtesy of Durbach Block Jaggers Architects

Australian architecture firm Durbach Block Jaggers has unveiled a design for the Pencil Tower Hotel in Sydney. Designed to be the country’s thinnest skyscraper, the project would rise at 410 Pitt Street with a height-to-width ratio of 16:1. With 173 hotel rooms with six suites on each floor, the 100-metre-high tower would be built in the downtown area with street frontage only 6.4 meters wide.

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