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Adelaide Is About to Get Its First Skyscraper — And It’s Built Around a 100-Year-Old Lodge
Keystone Tower will be the tallest building in the city's history. The hotel lobby might be its best feature.
North Terrace is getting a skyscraper. Adelaide’s first, actually.
Keystone Tower — currently under construction at 254 North Terrace — will rise 183 metres and 37 storeys above the city’s cultural boulevard, comfortably claiming the title of Adelaide’s tallest building.
A joint venture between Freemasons SA & NT and Melbourne-based developer Pelligra Group, and designed by local architects Walter Brooke and Bara Consulting Group, it’s a project that has been a long time coming.
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Inside: Adelaide’s first Westin hotel, luxury apartments, a wellness retreat worth flying home for, and a publicly accessible observatory at the very top.
But the detail that keeps coming up is the lobby.
The Grand Lodge of Freemasons — a State Heritage-listed building that has sat on North Terrace since 1927 — is being sensitively restored and opened to the public as part of the $400 million development.
Its Hall of Fame, grand marble staircase, original timber parquetry floors and ceremonial lodge rooms are all being retained, and guests of the Westin will be checked in through one of the city’s oldest and most storied rooms.
The Westin will span 16 floors of the tower, with 201 hotel rooms and 25 apartment-hotel rooms under Marriott International. Above that sits 48 apartments, conference facilities, a business lounge, hospitality venues and a wellness retreat designed to make interstate spa weekends feel unnecessary. A grand ballroom with city views and a three-level public observatory round out the building.
Freemasons SA & NT Grand Secretary Boyd Sparrow called it a landmark for both the street and the city.
“Keystone will bring together heritage, tourism, accommodation, hospitality and culture in one of the city’s most prominent locations,” he said.
Construction is underway. Completion is two to three years away — and North Terrace will never look the same.
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