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High Society Towers Lovett Tower This list of tallest buildings in Canberra ranks the tallest in Australia's capital city by height. This ranking system, created by the US-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat includes the height to a spire but not to an antenna. The High Society Towers at 113m and 100m respectively, with 27 storeys, are the tallest in the city. It is in Belconnen ...
Designed by Edwin Henderson and Cuthbert Whitley, the buildings are an example of typical Canberra inter-war functionalism. House the Canberra Fire Brigade Museum, Register of the National Estate Canberra Grammar School and Chapel 1929-64 Red Hill: Church school complex which is a good example of the inter-war Gothic style.
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Canberra" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Lovett Tower (formerly known as the MLC Building) is a 93-metre-tall building (305 ft) located in the Woden Town Centre, a commercial district in Canberra.The building is a Canberra icon and remains the tallest commercial building in Canberra offering vast 360* views across Woden valley.
The Kingston Foreshore Redevelopment is a major urban renewal program in the suburb of Kingston on the southern shore of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, the capital of Australia. This meant that at the start of the 21st century, the layout of the lake was significantly altered for the first time since its construction, on the southern shore of ...
Telstra Tower is one of the most visually imposing structures on the Canberra skyline, visible from many parts of Canberra and Queanbeyan. [10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, and the restrictions on public gatherings within the ACT, the Tower was closed in July 2021. Since then InfraCo has been working on developing a long-term strategy for the ...
Like other government buildings constructed in Canberra around that period, [17] it was designed in the Art Deco architectural style. [ 18 ] In addition to the patent office, occupying the building was the ACT Supreme Court , [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and the Commonwealth Security Services (CSS), [ 22 ] [ 23 ] : p. 23 [ 24 ] a predecessor of the ...
The Cameron Offices were the first major buildings to be built in Belconnen. They formed part of the original town plan, in which the aim was to provide a relatively compact pedestrian-oriented scheme on a north–south axis following the slope of the land from housing to the south through the office areas, transport interchange and shopping centre on to the man-made Lake Ginninderra, which ...