Brookfield Place is a skyscraper within the Brookfield Place office complex in

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, Western Australia. It is currently the second tallest building in Western Australia. Located at 125

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, the major tenant is

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. Construction commenced in April 2008 and was completed in 2012. The project is estimated to have cost around . Other tenants include

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, Navitas and

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. Developers Brookfield lodged a development application for the second stage of Brookfield Place in July 2011, for a 16-storey office tower to be situated to the south of the main tower fronting

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. Tower 2 was completed in 2015, with major tenants including

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, Ashurst,

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and

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. Retail tenants in the Brookfield Place complex include Montblanc and

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History

* 1986 -

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and

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both buy 25% stakes in the site in 1986 in partnership with the State Superannuation Board, as part of

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. * 1988 - The site, then part of the Perth Technical College site, was sold to

Kerry Packer Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...

and Warren Anderson for A$270million. One office building on what was renamed ''Westralia Square'' was constructed. The development is mired in WA state politics, and the deal will later be scrutinised in detail by the

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. Kerry Packer famously declares: "All Australians are crooks." * 1990s - A$2-billion development by Indonesia's Samma Group collapses. * 2003 - Kerry Packer sells the site to

and Stowe for A$19 million, taking a loss of A$200million. Multiplex and Griffin agree to carve up the Westralia Square property. Griffin has a smaller area on Mounts Bay Road and Multiplex has the prime location fronting

. * December 2007 -

signs the biggest office leasing deal in Perth's history—. * March 2008 - Perth's Lord Mayor announces that BHP will be headquartering in Perth, and their Melbourne operations will be significantly downgraded. (This is confirmed in August 2014.)

Design

Brookfield Place Tower is the tallest side core commercial building in the southern hemisphere. Designed by

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and Fitzpatrick + Partners, it included the restoration of the surrounding historic Newspaper House Group of Buildings, comprising four heritage-listed buildings, constructed between 1910 and 1932. The offset core protects the enclosed space by buffering the façade against the adverse northern sun and the associated solar heat gain. Externally, the expressive structural east and west exoskeletons create the distinctive tower aesthetic. The vertical expression of the tower structure accentuates the height of the building, which terminates in a tapered structural roof crown. Tower 2 was designed by

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. It features large column-free floor plates of approximately . The project also incorporates a sheltered upper-level walkway across Mounts Bay Road to provide greater connectivity between the

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and Perth's CBD.

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External links

Brookfield Place official Website
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TPG website

Hassell website

fitzpatrick+partners website
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