UTS Tower
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The UTS Tower
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| Alternative names | UTS Central |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | University administration |
| Architectural style | Brutalist |
| Address | 15 Broadway, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Country | Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°53′01″S 151°12′03″E / 33.8837°S 151.2007°ECoordinates: 33°53′01″S 151°12′03″E / 33.8837°S 151.2007°E |
| Construction started | 1969 |
| Opened | 1979 |
| Cost | A$32 million |
| Owner | University of Technology Sydney |
| Height | 120 metres (390 ft) |
The UTS Tower, also known as UTS Central, is one of many buildings that constitute the University of Technology, Sydney, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in 1979 in the brutalist architectural style, the tower is 120 metres (390 ft) tall and is used primarily for academic administration.
It is located south of the city's central business district, near to Central Railway station and opposite One Central Park at 15 Broadway, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The original 1964 plan provided for a row of seven twelve-storey buildings on the site. This was gradually modified. In 1965 it was to be four buildings of fifteen, twenty, nineteen and fourteen storeys. And by 1966, three buildings were planned of thirteen, twenty-two and sixteen storeys with two basements and five podium levels. The plan was to create an 'indoor campus' with all facilities being self-contained. An alternative interpretation of the Tower's rationale was provided by "Shoplift", a Student Association magazine. It alleged that the architects had been instructed to develop a building "in which students would not want to congregate". This was in the wake of the 1968 student riots in Paris and elsewhere when fear of student agitation was prevalent. By the mid-1970s, with cutbacks in Commonwealth funding, the grand plan was reduced to two buildings, the second to be not proceeded with. In the euphoria of the late sixties and early seventies, however, with money readily available and the Brickfield Hill campus bursting at the seams, NSWIT - which became UTS in 1988 and the largest of the institutions which ultimately amalgamated as the new UTS in 1990 - was keen to acquire new buildings.
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