Redglass Tower

Redglass Tower is a proposed residential skyscraper planned to be located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. The tower is planned to have 120 floors, and will be 400m High Above ground. The tower is due to start construction in early 2020 and an eight-year construction period is expected.

Design and appearance

The tower will be 400m above ground, and will have a cylindrical shape to it. To picture it, think of a sausage, but with a flat top and bottom. The main floors will be plated in red glass, and gold plated steel rods will travel around the entire building horizontally, along with the glass panels, in a horizontal spiral. Picture wrapping lots of red glass panels around the building. On each steel rod, millions of small coloured light globes will be attached with wire (which will be painted gold to camouflage with the rods), so that at night different patterns can be made. This is almost the same sort of light design as the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium and the Beijing Water Cube. Construction cost of the tower is estimated at AUD$90 Million.

Tower use

The tower has proposed that is will be used for residential purposes. The tower will include restaurants, a swimming pool on its roof, an observation deck and other bars and cafes. The swimming pool on its roof will be surrounded by a glass panel in the shape of a cylinder, in order to PReVENT [...] events and murders occurring. The glass is cylindrical to fit with the shape of the building.

Events

The tower will be a part of the Melbourne New Year's Eve fireworks show. Lights connected to the outer edge of the glass roof will light up in thousands of different colours, and so will the lights on the building, which will show the countdown and different pictures. The floor just below the swimming pool (floor 119) and floors 79 and 39 are engineering and maintenance floors, which can be used to plant high-voltage lights on new year's eve. Teams of people will plant fireworks stations on the top of the roof, as well as lighting up floors 119, 79 and 39 with an array of colours.

Floor plans

• Floors B1 and B2 are carparks.
• Floors B3 and B4 are security, technical and maintenance floors.
• The lobby is located on floor 1.
• Floors 2-38 are residential, and restaurants are located on floors 10, 20 and 30.
• Floor 39 is an engineering and maintenance floor.
• Floors 40-78 are residential floors.
• Floor 79 is an engineering and maintenance floor.
• Floor 80 has 3 restaurants, 4 cafe's and a shopping area.
• Floor 81 has a rotating restaurant, which covers he entire floor and gives excellent views of Melbourne.
• Floors 82-115 are premium residential floors.
• Floor 116 is the indoor observation deck.
• Floor 117 is the outdoor observation deck, known as the "Diamond Deck".
• Floor 118 houses the king suites and a spa.
• Floor 119 is an engineering and maintenance floor.
• Floor 120 is a circular pool enclosed in cylindrical glass. This floor also has a variety of bars.