1 Bligh Street

The premium grade office tower was designed by Ingenhoven Architects of Germany and Architectus of Australia.

Green features include a basement sewage plant that recycles 90 percent of the building waste water, solar panels on the roof and air conditioning by chilled beams.

[2] It is Australia's first major high-rise building with a full double-skin façade with external louvres.

The large-scale aluminium sculpture at the top of the curving steps at the entrance on the corner of Bligh and O'Connell streets is by California-based Australian James Angus.

The developers describe it as "a complex network of three-dimensional ellipsoidal surfaces drawn from shapes expressed in the design of the building," adding that its brightly painted colour scheme traces the underlying geometry of the sculpture.

The atrium
James Angus's sculpture