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Chifley Tower

New South Wales, Australia

The 309th tallest building in the world

241 m · 791 ft

Chifley Tower is a 53-storey skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by New York City-based architects Travis McEwen and Kohn Pedersen Fox, with John Rayner as project architect. At a height of 244 metres (801 feet), Chifley Tower was the tallest building in Sydney from 1992 to 2019. It was surpassed in height by Crown Sydney (271 metres) in 2020 along with the Salesforce Tower (263 metres) and One Sydney Harbour (247 metres) in 2022.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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