Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank ? a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia's tallest building.
The competition, run by developer Beulah International, to design a £1.1 billion mixed use development in the Australian city of Melbourne has drawn entries from some of the world's best-known architects.
The Lanescraper, designed by BIG and Fender Katsalidis Architects, is two interlocking towers over 300 metres high
Six designs for supertall towers have been shortlisted from the following teams: Bjarke Ingels Group with Fender Katsalidis Architects, Coop Himmelb(l)au with Architectus, MAD Architects with Elenberg Fraser, MVRDV with Woods Bagot, OMA with Conrad Gargett, and UNStudio with Cox Architecture. The developer purchased over 560 square metres of land on the Southbank Boulevard last year, and plan to turn it into a new "lifestyle precinct" with a hotel, shops and apartments along with cultural and public spaces.
The Urban Tree by MAD Architects and Elenber Fraser would have a light-up cloud shaped hotel near the top
Beijing-based MAD Architects and local architecture firm Elenberg Fraser have proposed Urban Tree, a 360-metre-high "mountain village" surrounded by foothills, with a hotel shaped like an illuminated cloud near its summit.
LEDs would light up the cloud at night, and renders show the tapering tower would have a glass fa...