World’s Tallest Timber Hotel to Break Ground in Downtown Adelaide
Brookfield Multiplex to start construction on the new 31-storey mass timber tower later this year with developer's hopeful that the new hotel will be operational by 2026 or 2027.
A new 31-storey timber skyscraper will break ground in the heart of Adelaide, with Barrie Harrop reviving plans for a $250m timber hotel on the site of the heritage-listed MLC building in Victoria Square.
The update, revealed by Green Street News and shared by Harrop via LinkedIn, will see Brookfield Multiplex start construction on the upmarket lifestyle hotel later this year—to be operated by a “globally recognised international hotelier”—with the Cox Architecture-designed project to use cross-laminated timber and green steel in its construction.
According to Hallop, who, with a fellow Adelaide developer, runs Thrive Construct, a firm that specialises in carbon-neutral projects using modular and prefab construction, “The property could welcome guests by late 2026 or early 2027,” with the development to offer 324 hotel suites, 20 residential apartments, and four penthouses.