Coca-Cola Place
| Coca-Cola Place | |
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View from Mount St
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| Alternative names | The Ark |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial Office Tower |
| Location | North Sydney, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°50′18.30″S 151°12′20.14″E / 33.8384167°S 151.2055944°ECoordinates: 33°50′18.30″S 151°12′20.14″E / 33.8384167°S 151.2055944°E |
| Completed | 2010 |
| Cost | A$230 million |
| Owner | Investa Property Group and Investa Commercial Property Fund |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 21 |
| Floor area | 28 500 m2 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Rice Daubney |
| Structural engineer | Taylor Thompson Whitting |
| Other designers | Cundall Johnston and Partners (ESD Consultant) |
Coca-Cola Place, originally known as The Ark, is a 21 level commercial office building located at 16-40 Mount St in North Sydney, Australia. It is jointly owned by Investa Property Group and Investa Commercial Property Fund and was designed by the architectural firm Rice Daubney. Major tenants include Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola South Pacific, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, AWE Limited and Regus.
The building has won a series of awards since completion in 2010 and has also received a 6-Star Green Star accreditation.
Coca-Cola Place is built on the site of the former North Sydney telephone exchange. A previous developer had intended the site for a boutique hotel but was bankrupted before development began. Rice Daubney, who had been speculatively assessing the suitability of a variety of North Sydney properties for development recommended the site at 16-40 Mount Street to Investa in 2006 after changes to North Sydney Council’s planning controls allowed an increase in floor space ratio on the site.
In order to gain council consent for the removal of the heritage listed telephone exchange building the developer made commitments to provide public space (a pocket park and forecourt), to ensure a three metre set back from the street and to incorporate public art into the building design.
Construction began in late 2007 and the first occupants (Coca-Cola Amatil) moved in early in 2010. The estimated cost of the redevelopment of the site was $230 million.
Coca-Cola Place was designed by the Australian architectural firm Rice Daubney. Though the building employs a classic podium and tower design the tilted facades, modest proportions and the open public forecourt at the entrance soften the transitions from ground to podium and from podium to tower while simultaneously giving the building its distinctive form.
Writing in INDESIGN magazine Angela Ferguson described Coca-Cola Place as ‘the best thing to happen to North Sydney, architecturally speaking, in a long time’. The Property Council’s NSW Executive Director, Glenn Byres has said that Coca-Cola Place ‘is what design excellence is all about - it is daring, iconic and a true landmark for Sydney’
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