The ‘Building of the Year’ is right here in Sydney
The list of awards for this landmark building just keeps on growing
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Hot on the heels of the announcement that Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower had been named High Rise Building of the Year last month, it has won yet another international award.
This time, it’s the prestigious “World Building of the Year” for 2022 at the World Architecture Awards.
Developed for client AMP Capital and led by Danish architectural firm 3XN and their Australian partners, BVN, the building has been lauded locally and internationally for its striking design and commitment to sustainability. The building retained 65 percent of the old structure of the 1976 building and 95 percent of its core, in a marked departure of standard high rise construction practice. More than 12,000 tonnes of carbon have been saved in the process.
At the same time, the building, which was constructed by Multiplex, delivers on a markedly modern approach to office environments, with close attention to connectivity between floors, as well as buildings and the local streetscape outside.
Part of the wider Quay Quarter development, the 50-storey building is a bold addition to the Sydney city skyline.
Read more about it and the people who designed it here.
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
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A water lily painting by Claude Monet of his Giverny gardens is expected to achieve at least US$65 million at Christie’s November sale of 20th-century art in New York
Le bassin aux nymphéas, or water lily pond, painted around 1917 to 1919, is a monumental canvas extending more than six-and-a-half feet wide and more than three-feet tall, that has been in the same anonymous private collection since 1972. According to Christie’s, the painting has never been seen publicly.
The artwork is “that rarest thing: a masterpiece rediscovered,” Max Carter, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art said in a news release Thursday.
A first look at this thickly painted example of Monet’s famed and influential water lily series will be on Oct. 4, when it is revealed in Hong Kong.
The price record for a Nymphéas painting by Monet was set in May 2018 for Nymphéas en fleur, another large-scale work that had been in the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. That painting sold for nearly US$85 million.
The current work for sale is guaranteed, Christie’s confirmed. The auction house did not provide further details on the seller.
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
