Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has built a skinny skyscraper named Collins House in Melbourne that's 184 metres tall and just 11.5 metres wide at its slimmest point.
The apartment building has a footprint the size of a single netball court and has a height-to-width ratio of 16:1. According to Bates Smart this makes skyscraper is Australia's slimmest tower and the third slimmest skyscraper in the world.

Collins House has 259 apartments set over 60 floors.
Amenities for Collins House include a residents' club on the 27th floor with a private dining room, a gym and a car stacking system with space for 108 vehicles. A terrace on the third floor features an open-air bar.

The tower was built above the 1908 Makers Mark building that has an 11-metre-wide ornate facade on Collins Street. The building extends up from behind this facade, which has been retained, and then cantilevers four and a half metres out on one side over an existing 11-storey office building next door.
Australian developer Golden Age bought the air rights above this building to allow the development to happen.

The floors of Collins House have an H-shaped plan, with the lifts pushed to the side meaning that all of the floor plates are column-free.
A herringbone pattern is picked out in white frames around all four sides of the tower's glazed facade.

Bates Smart used a modular system of prefabricated parts to speed up construction and facilitate building on such a compact site between existing buil...