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3XN's upcycled Quay Quarter Tower is the 2022 World Building of the Year

By Josh Niland|

Friday, Dec 2, 2022

World Building of the Year 2022: Sydney's Quay Quarter Tower by 3XN © Fred Holt

The final day of this year’s World Architecture Festival in Lisbon has culminated in 3XN’s Quay Quarter Tower named the World Building of the Year during a special ceremony at the city’s historic converted Convento Do Beato.

The 46-story Sydney tower provides a remarkable example of adaptive reuse to the industry, having retained some 65% of the original 1976 structure and a reported 95% of its core in the construction process that was completed in April of 2022.

© Phil Noller

"The winner was commissioned to provide a building on a world-class site, and to retain a huge proportion of an existing fifty-year-old commercial tower," WAF Program Director Paul Finch praised the winning scheme. "The result was an excellent example of adaptive reuse. It has an excellent carbon story, and it is an example of anticipatory workspace design produced pre-COVID which nevertheless has provided healthy and attractive space for post-pandemic users. The client was prepared to risk building out an idea on a speculative basis — it worked."

© Phil Noller

Its design entails a stacked program of five rotated volumes that conceal a "vertical village" of atria connecting to form a "social spine" throughout the tower, the capacity of which has been expanded from 4,500 to 10,000 thanks to the addition of new floor plates. In terms of its sustainability bonafides, the tower performs at an industry-leading high rate with an estimated embodied carbon savings equal to over 12,000 metric tonnes.

© Martin Siegner

Other 2022 WAF winners included Condition_Lab's Pingtan Children Library in the World Interior of the Year category; CAATStudio (Kamboozia Architecture and Design Studio)'s Dream Pathway in Iran in The Future Project of the Year category; and the Preservation and Rehabilitation of Rural Landscape of Gaodang from SHANCUN Atelier and the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University + Anshun Institute of Architectural Design in the Landscape of the Year category.

© Ethan Rohloff

More information about additional WAF winners can be found in our coverage of this year's World Architecture Festival Day 1 and Day 2 winners.

Longitudinal section, image courtesy of 3XN Architects
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Video via 3XN Architects on YouTube

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  • CC Chiang ·  Dec 03, 22 2:05 PM

    Amazing project from all parties - the vision and fortitude to embark on such a re-development, the engineering to graft new slabs onto an existing structure, and the design to wrap 2 buildings into 1.

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    archanonymous ·  Dec 04, 22 11:06 AM

    Agree with monosierra - we need more work like this. I think municipalities taking a hard line on building demolition, re-use, and sustainability will be the only way we get there on a broad scale. 

    It's also a good use of an architect's talents. Any hack can demolish an old building and throw up a new glass tower, but something like this... *chef's kiss*

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3XN's upcycled Quay Quarter Tower is the 2022 World Building of the Year

By Josh Niland|

Friday, Dec 2, 2022

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World Building of the Year 2022: Sydney's Quay Quarter Tower by 3XN © Fred Holt

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waf 2022 ● world architecture festival ● world building of the year ● 3xn ● waf ● sydney ● australia ● waf awards ● award ● world architecture festival awards ● adaptive reuse ● retrofitting ● tower ● competition
3XN
3XN
Aspect Studios
Aspect Studios
Design Research Studio - Tom Dixon
Design Research Studio - Tom Dixon
Arup
Arup

The final day of this year’s World Architecture Festival in Lisbon has culminated in 3XN’s Quay Quarter Tower named the World Building of the Year during a special ceremony at the city’s historic converted Convento Do Beato.

The 46-story Sydney tower provides a remarkable example of adaptive reuse to the industry, having retained some 65% of the original 1976 structure and a reported 95% of its core in the construction process that was completed in April of 2022.

© Phil Noller

"The winner was commissioned to provide a building on a world-class site, and to retain a huge proportion of an existing fifty-year-old commercial tower," WAF Program Director Paul Finch praised the winning scheme. "The result was an excellent example of adaptive reuse. It has an excellent carbon story, and it is an example of anticipatory workspace design produced pre-COVID which nevertheless has provided healthy and attractive space for post-pandemic users. The client was prepared to risk building out an idea on a speculative basis — it worked."

© Phil Noller

Its design entails a stacked program of five rotated volumes that conceal a "vertical village" of atria connecting to form a "social spine" throughout the tower, the capacity of which has been expanded from 4,500 to 10,000 thanks to the addition of new floor plates. In terms of its sustainability bonafides, the tower performs at an industry-leading high rate with an estimated embodied carbon savings equal to over 12,000 metric tonnes.

© Martin Siegner

Other 2022 WAF winners included Condition_Lab's Pingtan Children Library in the World Interior of the Year category; CAATStudio (Kamboozia Architecture and Design Studio)'s Dream Pathway in Iran in The Future Project of the Year category; and the Preservation and Rehabilitation of Rural Landscape of Gaodang from SHANCUN Atelier and the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University + Anshun Institute of Architectural Design in the Landscape of the Year category.

© Ethan Rohloff

More information about additional WAF winners can be found in our coverage of this year's World Architecture Festival Day 1 and Day 2 winners.

Longitudinal section, image courtesy of 3XN Architects
RELATED NEWS CopenHill/Amager Bakke wins 2021 World Building of the Year award
RELATED NEWS World Architecture Festival 2022: Check out the winning projects of Day One
RELATED NEWS World Architecture Festival 2022: Day Two winners revealed
Video via 3XN Architects on YouTube

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  • CC Chiang ·  Dec 03, 22 2:05 PM

    Amazing project from all parties - the vision and fortitude to embark on such a re-development, the engineering to graft new slabs onto an existing structure, and the design to wrap 2 buildings into 1.

  • archanonymous

    archanonymous ·  Dec 04, 22 11:06 AM

    Agree with monosierra - we need more work like this. I think municipalities taking a hard line on building demolition, re-use, and sustainability will be the only way we get there on a broad scale. 

    It's also a good use of an architect's talents. Any hack can demolish an old building and throw up a new glass tower, but something like this... *chef's kiss*

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