Eureka+Tower

**EUREKA TOWER. By Claudia.** **__ 1.- DESCRIPTION __** >
 * **Built: 2006 **
 * **Location : Melburne, Australia .media type="custom" key="14077624" **
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Eureka_Tower%2C_Melbourne_-_Nov_2008.jpg/209px-Eureka_Tower%2C_Melbourne_-_Nov_2008.jpg width="120" height="336"]]
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 * Short information about the structure: **Eureka Tower is named after the Eureka Stockade, a rebellon during the in Victorian gold rush 1854. This has been incorporated into the design, with the building's gold crown representing the gold rush and a red stripe representing the blood spilt during the revolt. The blue glass cladding that covers most of the building represents the blue background of the stockade's flag and the white lines also represent the eureka stockade flag. The white horizontal stripes also represent markings on a surveyor's measuring staff**.


 * __2.- WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OR USES OF THE STRUCTURE? __**

** We use the Eureka Tower for Apartment building **
 * __3.- WHAT DIFFERENT PARTS ARE THERE? Elements of the structure... __**
 * **Podium (carpark, retail, restaurants, showrooms)**
 * **Apartment Tower (apartments, penthouses)**
 * **Summit Complex (serviced offices, restaurants, observation deck).**



** The top floors have been glazed with a gold coated glass. **** The Eurkea Tower's façade consists of glass and aluminium panels covering an area of 40,000m². ** ** The building was constructed from reinforced concrete (slipform method) and prestressed concrete. The tower design used a central core with columns on the perimeter and a 150mm floor slab thickness along with 800mm deep perimeter beams. A total of 5,000t of structural steel and 110,000t of concrete were used in the construction of the 200,000t tower. Most concrete pouring was carried out by two mobile concrete pumps or two Putzmeister tower-mounted pumping booms. **
 * __4.- WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS MADE OF? __** **CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS USED ** //: //


 * __5.- STRESSES IN THE STRUCTURE __****: **

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.- STABILITY, RIGIDITY AND RESISTANCE __**
 * This structure is made rigid by : Columns
 * This structure is made stable by : tough base
 * This structure is made resistant by : cement and metals


 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">7.- Picture Gallery __**


 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">8.- More information: __**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Construction began August 2001 and took 4 years and 2 months.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** The tower was built using reinforced concreted using a slipform method. Eureka Tower's lift core superseded the height of Rialto Tower on 9 November 2004. ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**On 23 May 2006, the crane on top of the tower was dismantled by a smaller crane, which was dismantled by a smaller crane that could be taken down the service elevator.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Eureka Tower has 24 carat (100%) gold plated glass windows on the top 10 floors of the building. Installation of the gold glass was completed in March 2006. Apartment owners and tenants had taken up residence in the building between Ground Level and Level 80 as of July 2006.**


 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9.- CURIOSITIES __**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The observation deck (Eureka Skydeck 88) occupies the entire 88th floor of the Eureka Tower and is the highest public vantage point in a building in the Southern Hemisphere at 285 m (935 ft). It opened to the public on 15 May 2007. An entry fee applies to access the Skydeck.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Skydeck features thirty viewfinders that help visitors to pinpoint numerous significant landmarks around all parts of Melbourne, along with several free binoculars. There is a small outside area called 'The Terrace' which is closed in high winds. There is also a glass cube called The Edge//,// which extends itself from the building to hang over the edge of the tower and add to the viewing experience.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">On 10 January 2005 Gorcon, the firm building Eureka Tower, proposed adding a 53.8 m (176.5 ft) communications mast/observation tower. The proposal is currently before the local planning commission. This mast would be a significant structure, used for providing an adventure climb to the tip of the summit.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">On 16 April 2006, a new proposal was announced that the construction company and developers were considering options for the building to have a "skywalk" that would take daring people up 350 metres high. The proposed structure may also include a communications tower.

<span class="mw-headline" style="color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Edge
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Skydeck 88 features 'The Edge' – a glass cube which projects 3 m (10 ft) out from the building with visitors inside, suspended almost 300 m (984 ft) above the ground. When you enter, the glass is opaque as the cube moves out over the edge of the building. Once fully extended over the edge, the glass becomes clear.

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">10.- PERSONAL COMMENTS __**

<span style="color: #2b9c44; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I think it's a very large and nice, if I someday I would like to visit Australia

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: 584.5px; width: 1px;">**__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">8.- Picture Gallery __**