1. We are WSP
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  4. City Tattersall Club

Location

  • Sydney, Australia

Client

  • ICD Property (DA to Tender Documentation) / Richard Crookes Construction (Construction Stage)

Architect

  • ICD Property

Project Value

  • $300m

Project Status

  • Due to complete 2026

City Tattersall Club is currently undergoing a transformation to adapt the 130-year-old building with a new 50 storey hotel and residential tower above. The tower will be sensitively positioned within the six-floor heritage podium reinvigorating the club levels, while bringing a new iconic tall building to the Sydney skyline.

Working collaboratively as part of the design team with the developer ICD, the tower architects BVN and the heritage podium architects FJMT, WSP provided design support (Building Services, Vertical Transportation, Sustainability, Fire engineering, Acoustics, Structural and Civil engineering) from the initial Development Application (DA) submission through to tender documentation. 

Enstruct, who are part of WSP, are providing Structural and Civil services for the construction partner Richard Crookes Construction.

Floor Space (SQM)
200
Storeys
50
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Adaptive reuse of a heritage listed building 

The City Tattersalls Club renovation creates a destination hotel built through and above the historic building. Our experts appreciated that the new structure had to weave its way around and through the existing podium – respectful of the historic building fabric, while still being constructible.

Our structural design will help create additional space under the existing building and bring the structural capacities of the existing building up to current code, with minimal modifications to the frame. 

One of the key design challenges is that the tower requires cantilevers in two directions above the heritage podium. Our solution is to integrate ‘walking walls’, which enable the architect to position the columns to best fit the layout and optimize the available floor space, whilst achieving the necessary structural support. Minimizing the impact on the layout of the existing building and providing constructability concepts also enables the contractor to control the tendering risk. 

Other challenges that we have overcome