Australian architecture studio Durbach Block Jaggers has unveiled its design for the 6.4-metre-wide Pencil Tower Hotel skyscraper that is set to be built at 410 Pitt Street in Sydney.
Described by the studio as a "sky scratcher" as it is "too thin to really qualify as a skyscraper", the building has been submitted to planning authorities.
According to Durbach Block Jaggers, with a height-to-width ratio of 16:1, Pencil Tower Hotel will be Australia's skinniest skyscraper when it is complete.
Pencil Tower Hotel will be a skinny skyscraper
The 100-metre-high tower is set to be built in the downtown area of Sydney on a site at 410 Pitt Street that has a street frontage that is only 6.4 metres wide.
In total, the hotel would contain 173 hotel rooms with six suites on each floor. It will stand on a seven-storey podium building that will contain a lobby, cafe and lounge and be topped by a spa on the upper floors that opens out onto a projecting balcony.
According to Durbach Block Jaggers, this will make the skinny skyscraper resemble the arrangement of a column on a base topped with a capital.
"An improbably narrow, six-metre-wide site is envisaged for a 100-metre tower in the downtown area of Sydney near its central station," said the studio. "Our proposal embraces this extraordinary attenuated quality, proposing a 'column' tower on a low scale podium."
The skyscraper will only be 6.4 metres wide
Durbach Block Jaggers has designed the p...