The Southern Cross commercial development is located in the heart of the Melbourne City Centre and provides contemporary office accommodation. It comprises two large transparent glass office towers known as the East and West towers, separated by a central tapering civic lane way space, that maintains public connectivity at ground level and provides light amenity to both the ground and office towers.
The development provides a total of 144,000m2 GFA (gross floor area) of quality commercial office space, over 5,000m2 of retail space and secure parking for 950 cars, 450 bicycles and 100 motor bikes.
The East tower, with its centrally located core and only one row of columns to the building perimeter, provides 75,000m2 NLA (nett lettable area) over forty levels, with typical office floorplates larger than 2100m2 NLA.
The West tower with its side core office floorplate and two rows of columns (perimeter and centre of building) provides a total of 45,000m2 NLA over 22 levels.
The compilation of towers becomes transparent with a predominant usage of glass façade technology. Northern light is encouraged to enter deep into the site by orientating the towers on a North South axis.