GSA Guide - Emirates House Claimed
URPoint Details
This URP is provided and maintained by members of the Geological Society of Australia as a geo-located community knowledge service.
One of the earlier high-rises in the "Golden Triangle' precinct it is predominantly used as commercial office accommodation.
History:
The Emirates House was completed in 1973 and is predominantly used as office accommodation. The building reaches 119 m in height and houses 24 levels and was Brisbane's tallest building from 1973 to 1977. In a refurbishment of the building in 1996 the facade and roof top levels were significantly transformed.
Building Materials:
The main pillars at the Eagle Street frontage are faced with polished brownish-grey crystal-rich ignimbrite (rhyolite), inferred to originate from northern Italy (possibly Bozener quartz porphyry which is widely used in Europe).
The foyer walls are a light-grey fossiliferous (foraminifera?) limestone of unknown origin. The entrance floor consists of black fine-grained norite (Black Hill Norite - commercial name: Australian Black Granite from South Australia).
The perimeter floor of the building is a the white leucogranite of unknown origin.
- Type:
- Landmark