13 June 2025

Festival Plaza Tower 2 has received Development Approval!

Designed by JPW for Walker Corporation, the 38-storey, 160-metre tower will complete the Festival Plaza redevelopment, reinforcing the Riverbank Precinct as a key destination for business, culture, and public life in Adelaide.

This will be Adelaide’s first skyscraper and builds on the success of Festival Tower (T1), also designed by JPW, which redefined commercial design in the city with a strong focus on workplace quality and wellbeing. Together, the two towers form a unified, contemporary, and contextual response to this landmark site.

Tower 2 introduces a range of publicly accessible spaces, sustainable retail, and a new civic facility, expanding the precinct’s social and cultural role. Its geometry responds to the shifting Adelaide grid and the forms of the neighbouring Festival Centre and plaza, subtly referencing the state’s floral emblem, Sturt’s Desert Pea.

Set to be Adelaide’s most sustainable commercial building, Tower 2 will be the first in the city to achieve a 6 Star NABERS Energy rating, and the largest all-electric office tower in South Australia, featuring the city’s biggest solar array and targeting carbon neutrality by 2028.

Congratulations to Walker Corporation on this next chapter in the ongoing revitalisation of Festival Plaza.

JPW acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country and honours their continuing connection to lands, waters, skies, and communities.

We offer our respect to Elders past and those present – as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work.