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222 Exhibition Street (TAC House) is an office building in Melbourne, Australia. Constructed in 1989 by Denton Corker Marshall, the TAC House was one of the example in architecture that was built in the Modern style. It has a total of 26 floors and it is currently used as an office building.〔http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/building444_tac-house.html〕 During construction, it was one of the first commercial building in many years to be built in the precinct.〔Beck, Haig; Cooper, Jackie, 2000. Denton Corker Marshall Rule Playing And The Ratbag Element. Birkhäuser. pp 116.〕 == Description == The square tower is articulated by four blue glazed corner elements separated by a recessed balcony grillage which extends to a three level grillage at the top of the building. The tower sits on a dark grey podium containing car-parking, retail and residential development.〔http://aardvark.tce.rmit.edu.au/aardvark3/area-a/DCM222EX/home-b.htm〕 Two components of the programme dominate the final form of the building: office and car parking. The offices had to be a tower of rather squat proportions (the market stipulated an efficient forty square meter floor plate) surmounting a car park (built largely above ground to reduce excavation costs) and covering as much of the site as possible (to minimise the number of parking levels). An architectural reading of tower on podium was given to the resulting forms - a formal reading that satisfied at least the planners. To overcome the chunky proportions of the resultant ‘tower’, Denton Corker Marshall inflated the scale to disrupt any accurate reading of its size. They did this by dividing the mass of the building into four slender towers seated by a cruciform structural steel armature, and sheathing them in mirror glass to deny any reading of the intervening floor levels.〔Beck, Haig; Cooper, Jackie, 2000. Denton Corker Marshall Rule Playing And The Ratbag Element. Birkhäuser. pp 116.〕 The base of 222 Exhibition Street discreetly conceals a ground hugging 500 space car park hidden by a skin of shops. The stone-faced base forms the street elevation, defines the building/street alignment and establishes the dignified entry. Residential development of seven (four storeys) townhouses can be found at the rear of the project. Locating at Punch Lane.〔Graham Jahn, GJ, 1994. Contemporary Australian Architecture. 1st ed. Australia: G+B Arts International Limited. pp 105-109〕 In 2010,〔http://maben.com.au/projects/222-exhibition-street-melbourne〕 the interior of the TAC House was renovated by local architecture firm Mills Gorman Architects with refurbishments and replanning of the ground floor with new accessible amenities.〔http://www.millsgorman.com.au/projects/222-exhibition-st〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「222 Exhibition Street (TAC House)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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