Bathurst 60 is a five-star landmark hotel and residential development set within the heart of Sydney’s CBD. This striking 27-storey building comprises a 150-room hotel, conference rooms, food and beverage facilities, and 95 premium residential apartments in the tower above the eight-storey podium.
Smart Design Studio was awarded the project through the City of Sydney’s invited competitive design process. The design takes the form of four ‘blocks’ that offset from one another and align to the predominant street walls of Bathurst and Sussex Streets on the lower levels. These blocks appear to float above the steeply inclined streets, creating a highly activated two-storey space with a foyer, bar, restaurant and function rooms. The upper tower blocks step back to align with the surrounding tall buildings. On the podium roof is a 20-metre-long wet-edge pool with associated lounge, gym, yoga room and facilities.
Expand ContentHovering above and alongside one another, the blocks have voids between them that allow light and air into the centre of the building. Additionally, corners have been created to allow more rooms with natural ventilation and a strong visual connection to the city. This results in great variety of dual aspect apartments that are spacious and bright.
Extrapolating the visual language of the surrounding brick buildings, Bathurst 60 is Australia’s tallest brick building – a striking tower with handsome proportions, refined detailing and a quiet demeanour. The materiality reinforces the “downtown” character of this Haymarket locale and, through unity with its neighbours, lifts the urban quality of the precinct. The use of brick construction marries with the long history of brick warehouses in this area, while presenting itself as a contemporary building. Through innovation, this tried and tested material is elevated, enabling the construction of the 27-storey tower using real bricks laid individually rather than brick slips or imitation bricks.
Within the building’s podium, the façade is expressed as half brick and half glass with offset windows reminiscent of a chequerboard. These 1.8-metre-wide, full height, deep-set windows give ample light and aspect to the hotel rooms while affording an appropriate amount of privacy within this high density area. The tower, where the apartments are located, is dominated by glass, with tall 350mm-wide brick columns that break the façade into a series of front glazed windows. Between the expressed slabs, the columns and brick walls are offset from each other, bringing a sense of energetic friction to this building that is at once classical and contemporary.
2021 Winner Asian Pacific Property Awards Mixed Use Development and Residential Interior Apartment
2021 Winner Asian Pacific Property Awards Residential Interior Apartment
2021 Winner Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards Mixed Use Development
2021 Highly Commended Think Brick Horbury Hunt Award
