Luxury boomer apartment atop city’s future tallest tower planned

LONDON: A luxury boomer apartment is planned to top the tallest building tower in the city.

The developer behind what is set to become Australia’s tallest skyscraper has revealed its vision for how residents will live the high life.

With an indoor pool, a soaring double-storey void with a tree growing in it and a striking curving staircase, new renders of the STH BNK by Beulah precinct’s main tower shows plans to take apartment life up a level.

The “tailored living” space will be offered to buyers higher up in the 101-storey building, which will include four different types of apartment.

Further detail on residences, including how many will feature in the soaring, twisted address designed by UNStudio and Cox Architecture, will be announced in the first half of 2022.

Construction is expected to commence in the second half of the year, and take about five years to finish.

The 356m tower at the heart of the firm’s STH BNK precinct was approved by the state government in 2020, and will be joined by a second 56-storey tower with a matching twisted design as part of a $2bn new precinct that will replace a BMW dealership.

While the main tower will be a mostly residential, the second will host a hotel and office space and the wider precinct will offer public green spaces, wellness retreats, an art gallery and childcare centre.

At its highest point, the project will be about 30m bigger than the nation’s current tallest tower, Q1 on the Gold Coast, and well exceed Melbourne’s current top address: the 319m Australia 108.

Beulah yesterday claimed the building would also provide residents with Melbourne’s cleanest air, thanks to a custom-designed ventilation and filtration system that would strip moisture, disease particles and even smoke from air going into the building.

The system has been developed with engineers ARUP with a goal of ensuring residents get a good night’s sleep and maintain productivity when working from home, without recirculated air leading to a carbon dioxide build up.

Beulah managing director Jiaheng Chan said it would also help maintain a comfortable temperature inside the tower.

“There’s been a massive shift towards improving the ventilation and quality of air in buildings, mostly off the back of airborne diseases, but Australians have also had to deal with unsafe air quality during our recent bushfire seasons,” Mr Chan said.