The ‘ Pencil Tower’ Hotel – Haymarket, NSW.

With a street frontage of just six metres, the Pencil Tower Hotel is barely wider than a terraced house. But the 110-metre “skyscratcher” proposed for the southern end of Sydney’s CBD promises bird’s eye views of the city – albeit from a narrow perch. 

Planning documents for the $35.6 million hotel, which are on exhibition until February 2, describe the “improbably narrow” tower as a “skyscratcher” because it is too thin to be regarded as a skyscraper: “It’s as if 30 Paddington terraces were stacked one above the other.” 

Derek led the Stormwater Drainage, Water Sensitive Urban Design, Public Domain Design and Traffic Mitigation for DA and CC.