The Sydney Harbour Control Tower oversaw vessel movements on

Sydney Harbour Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (p ...

, Australia from 1974 until 2011. It was demolished in 2016.

History

The Sydney Harbour Control Tower was opened in 1974 by the

Maritime Services Board The Maritime Services Board was a statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales responsible for marine safety, regulation of commercial and recreational boating and oversight of port operations. History The Maritime Services Board (MSB ...

as part of the redevelopment of

Darling Harbour Darling Harbour is a harbour adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is made up of a large recreational and pedestrian precinct that is situated on western outskirts of the Sydney central business district. Origin ...

as a container port. The site was selected as it had views of all of the main shipping channels of

. The 87 metre tower was built overlooking

Walsh Bay Walsh Bay is a bay within Port Jackson, about south of the suburb McMahons Point. It is named after Henry Deane Walsh, Engineer-in-chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust. Walsh Bay is officially defined as that body of water that stretches from th ...

and Darling Harbour. It had a cylindrical

reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete (RC), also called reinforced cement concrete (RCC) and ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having hig ...

column with a circular stainless steel and glass cabin with three floors.Sydney Harbour Control Tower
Office of Environment & Heritage With the transfer of container shipping operations to Port Botany, the tower closed in 2011, with ownership transferred from Roads & Maritime Services to the Barangaroo Delivery Authority in 2012. It was demolished in 2016 as part of the Barangaroo redevelopment.Robots to bring down 87 metre tall Sydney Harbour Control Tower
''Sydney Morning Herald'' 9 February 2016

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