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St Martins Tower
St Martins Tower is a office building in Perth, Western Australia. It was the tallest building in the city from its completion in 1978 for almost 10 years, until it was overtaken in height by the BankWest Tower in 1988. The tower has a revolving restaurant A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is a tower restaurant designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving wikt:platform, platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the rev ... called '' C Restaurant'' on level 33, the last floor with windows. This is the only revolving restaurant in Western Australia. For years it was informally known as the AAPT Tower, and later the Amcom building. External links * (General database of skyscrapers)Commencement of the St. Martin's Tower construction (State Library of Western Australia online media) {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Martins Tower Buildings and structures with revolving restaurants Skyscraper office building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The Extremes on Earth#Other places considered the most remote, world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth metropolitan region, Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River, upon which its #Central business district, central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth was founded by James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BankWest Tower
108 St Georges Terrace, also Palace Tower and formerly the South32 Tower, Bankwest Tower, Bond Tower, and R&I Tower, is a fifty-storey office building in Perth, Western Australia. The project was initiated in 1981 and completed in 1988, and the building measures to its roof and to the tip of its Antenna (radio), communications antenna. Upon completion, it was Perth's tallest building until Central Park (skyscraper), Central Park surpassed it in 1992. It is the List of tallest buildings in Perth, third-tallest building in Perth. The tower, designed by the architect firm Cameron Chisholm Nicol, features a right triangle, triangular cross-section and stepped front to maximise natural light and corner offices. Extensive testing ensured the building's resilience to extreme weather conditions. The completed building rests upon 43 belled concrete and steel piles, with a sixteen-metre-deep basement featuring a diaphragm wall to prevent water ingress. The site occupied by the tower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolving Restaurant
A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is a tower restaurant designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving wikt:platform, platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables patrons to enjoy a panoramic view without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, radio masts and towers, communication towers, and skyscrapers. Revolving restaurants and the prices of their dishes have been subject to ridicule. Design and construction Revolving restaurants are designed as a circular structure, with a platform that rotates around a core in the center. The center core contains the building's elevators, kitchens, or other features. The restaurant itself rests on a thin steel platform, with the platform sitting on top of a series of wheels connected to the floor of the structure. Alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C Restaurant
C Restaurant is a revolving restaurant located at Level 33 of St Martins Tower in Perth, Western Australia. It is the only revolving restaurant in Perth, completing a full 360-degree rotation in 90 minutes, offering views of the Swan River, the suburbs and the hills. History C Restaurant is the second restaurant to be located at the top of St Martins Tower. The first, Hilite 33, was opened in 1978. Its staff included a young Shane Osborn, who was later the head chef at Pied à Terre in London. In 2000, Hilite 33's co-founder and then owner, Alain Kuhl, sold the business. The other co-founder of Hilite 33 was Jean-Daniel Ichallalene. The new owner, Phil Clements, renamed the business, and relaunched it on Australia Day, 26 January 2001. Although Clements later claimed that C Restaurant offered "fun dining rather than fine dining", he also aimed to establish a national reputation. He revamped the menu, instituting a two course minimum order to deter casually dressed sightse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AAPT Limited
AAPT is a fixed-line telecommunications company owned by TPG Telecom. It owns significant fibre and internet infrastructure in Australia. Its national network offers data, cloud, voice and internet services. History The company was formed by the division of the communications businesses of Australian Associated Press. In 1992 AAPIS was formed with News Corporation and John Fairfax Holdings as majority shareholders, with MCI and Todd Capital also possessing shares in the company. The company began operating as the first significant competitor to Telstra in the long-distance voice and data markets in 1991, offering point to point microwave shots to AAP's private exchanges in Sydney and Melbourne, offering STD and International Long Distance services using the AAP's leased backbone, (which at the time was one of the largest private backbone networks in Australia) and terminating calls through a hybrid of its own network and various international and domestic interconnection agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amcom Telecommunications
Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is a telecommunications company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Vocus Communications was founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale, enterprise, government, business and consumer telecommunications provider. As at May 2025, Vocus owns and manages Australia's second largest intercapital fibre network. Vocus provides wholesale, enterprise, government, business and consumer telecommunications services across Australia, and on international subsea cable systems between the United States and Asia Pacific. Vocus offers data network services such as Internet, dark fibre, IP WAN, unified communications and telephony and cloud services to mid, large and corporate businesses direct and also acts as a wholesaler. The company owns and operates 18 data centres across Australia and has an onshore Network Operations Centre. In 2015, Vocus Communications acquired Perth-based Amcom. Vocus Communications merged with M2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures With Revolving Restaurants
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyscraper Office Buildings In Perth, Western Australia
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise buildings. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscraper walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by steel frames and curtain walls. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls with a small surface a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
