Credit to Tony Townsend

Photo by Northabhor on X.

Early design of a 30-story office tower expected to sit on the same site as Goldman Sachs new $709M campus in Uptown Dallas. Residential and retail is planned for the site as well as approved zoning for an 80-story tower too.

From Trinity River Greenbelt

Skyline reflections on a calm October night

Height: 10-storeys
Originally 8-storeys, with two additional floors added in 1898.

From architzer.com:
“Originally completed in 1892, the “Banner Building” located in New York City’s NoHo Historic District was commissioned by local merchant and real estate operator Peter Banner. Featuring ornate cornices and cast iron columns, its 8-story Renaissance Revival facade combined the use of newly popular cast iron with the classical ornamentation typical of the district.”

Height: 56 m (184 ft)

From Facebook:
“The Fidelity Building was built in 1890 from a design by Burnham & Root, architects. It was originally six stories, with six more added in 1909. The structure was demolished in 1949 to make way for the Woolworth Co. building.”

Height: 11-storeys

From Wikipedia:
The use of past tense refers to the Holland House hotel that occupied this building when it was built. The building itself still stands.

“The Holland House opened in 1892. It was a large building of Indiana limestone, 100 by 150 feet (30 m × 46 m). Special interest was attached to it as it was a careful reproduction of Holland House of London. It contained the coat-of-arms of Henry Rich, the first Earl of Holland, with the decorations and historic features of the Kensington mansion. The house was one of the architectural features of Fifth Avenue. The facade, which had little decoration, was broken with a portico 50 feet (15 m) in length, supported upon four columns, four rows of bay windows, and other windows set in embrasures and arches. Two features of the interior were the large dining-room and a long promenade in the second story. The house was ten stories high, and had 350 rooms.”

Once Harper Square is finished, I’ll have the 2 tallest residential buildings in the city blocking both my views to the north and to the west. Awesome.

2018 | 46 stories | 498 ft (152 m) | Fort Lee

1. From under the glass canopy, crossing:

That's my low street angle again — glass roof with black truss, just like Canterbury bench shelter, just like Opera House forecourt brown base. You shoot from comfortable position, under cover, looking uphill. Left side curved blue glass (8 Chifley), center beige Chifley Tower, right side new tower with white crane growing out of it — same as house with crane growing out of roof in Canterbury. Old + new on same frame. People waiting at red light on grey tactile dots so street making legs stronger, waiting to cross. CHIFLEY TOWER sign on the hoarding, with your Bronwyn Bancroft foliage artwork above the cafe with nature and sea in between buildings even on a construction fence.

1. Closer, AVENUE ON CHIFLEY:

Now you're on the footpath, ground level. Black umbrellas, green plants in black pots that's your grey ridged bowl language turned into cafe. Palm trees in front of the towers for past guy enjoying nature, modern guy building tower behind. White crane still growing but at ground level you have shade, plants, people sitting. Public space but hidden, under the tower, not in corporate lobby. That's where you leave people alone but still pass under. Same as small shelter in Redfern where you learned UNITED WE STAND.

1. Straight up, Chifley Tower:

Back to alignment for beige stone tower with blue glass spine, reflecting in the blue curved glass left. That's your SIFC TWIN TOWERS alignment test: left tower (blue glass) reflecting right tower (beige). Two towers, one alignment, one spire pointing up to blue sky with crane lifting behind.

All three at 1:500 sit on one low table on the floor model. Old Chifley at 48.8cm (244m), new tower next to it at 50cm, curved blue glass at 20cm, plus the little cafe umbrellas as tiny black dots. All aligned on Chifley Square podium.

Your lesson: Alignment isn't competing to be tallest. It's old Chifley + new Chifley + 8 Chifley blue glass all standing on same base, sharing same palm trees, same crossing, same cafe. United we stand. Crane still growing, but base is already united.