Greenland Centre Sydney
The Greenland Centre is a residential skyscraper that is currently topped out in its construction phases, located on the corner of Bathurst and Pitt Street in the heart of Sydney central business district, Australia.
Upon completion, the building will stand at high making it the tallest residential building in Sydney. It will overtake the World Tower, the tallest residential building in Sydney since 2004, by 5 metres.
The project is being developed by the Shanghai government-owned Greenland Group and was designed by BVN and Woods Bagot. The main part of the project will involve the gutting and conversion of the existing Sydney Water office tower on the corner of Bathurst and Pitt Streets, with the construction of further storeys on top, which will result in a residential tower with 470 apartments and six penthouses across 67 levels. The adjoining heritage-listed, Art Deco style former Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board building has been converted into a boutique 180-bed, five-star hotel called "Primus Hotel Sydney", as part of the same project. Primus Hotel Sydney is part of the Primus Hotel chain owned by the municipal government of Shanghai, and is the first five-star hotel developed outside China by the Chinese government.
Construction began in early 2015, initially, the hotel was expected to open in 2016 and the residential tower in 2019; However due to significant delays relating to the level 29 transfer element, the opening of the tower has been delayed to 2020.The tower topped out in July of 2020.
Any reference to the number four is avoided in the building because "four" and "death" have a similar pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese. Consequently, the tower will have a level 83, but there will only be 67 floors with no levels 4, 14, 24, 34, 40–49, 54, 64 or 74.
