2006 Eureka tower

Some more facts:
- construction began in August of 2001;
- the building weighs 200,000 tonnes;
5,000 tonnes of reinforced steel and 110,000 tonnes of concrete
were used in the construction of Eureka Tower;
- the façade of the tower consists of 40,000 square metres of glass and aluminum panels;
- the glass is specially designed to reflect heat in the Summer, but to retain heat in the Winter

The pictures you find on this page were taken in April 2006;
just a few days before the building was completed (on the outside).
You can still see a crane on top doing the last (gold) decoration work on the summit of Eureka Tower.