Deutsche Bank Place, Skyscraper in Sydney, Australia
Deutsche Bank Place is a 39-storey, 240-metre skyscraper at 126 Phillip Street in Sydney's central business district. Its slanted roofline rises from lower left to upper right, topped by an open white steel lattice frame. The facade is a grid of white vertical mullions and dark rectangular window panes, with "DEUTSCHE BANK PLACE" in blue capitals on the upper left slope.
Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, the tower was built from 2002 to 2005 at 126 Phillip Street. Its height was cut back from the original plan because a taller building would have blocked sunlight to the State Library and Parliament to the east; the slanted, stepped roof lets light reach the south-eastern side. The spires were designed for the taller scheme and now look oversized.
The ground-floor lobby is named "The Assembly", a full-floor space that opens into the building's hollow core, which lets air and light pass through the tower. Deutsche Bank holds the naming rights and occupies floors in the building; the law firm Allens was long a tenant until it moved its Sydney office to 33 Alfred Street in May 2026.
The tower stands at 126 Phillip Street, on the corner of Hunter Street at the north-eastern end of the central business district, across the road from Chifley Tower. The ground-floor lobby, called the Assembly, fills the whole first level and is entered from Phillip Street. The hollow core lets daylight and air into the lobby.
The building was planned taller, but extra height would have blocked sunlight to the State Library and Parliament to its east. The sloped, stepped roof lets light reach the south-eastern side, and the spires were designed for the taller version, so they now look oversized.
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