The recent renovation of the old Commonwealth Bank building in Martin Place, Sydney involved removing the entire centre of the buildings top 11 floors and installing a 20 metre high ‘bubble’ roof.

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Erco designed the blind systems for the bubble roof, these included:

  • Uplift shades narrowing at the top, driven by Erco constant drives through the complex curved ends and corners.  Additional straight Uplift shades were also used on the curved side walls.
  • Abrishade system driven by the Somfy FTC through the atrium roof and
  • ErcoZip systems for the sloping internal side walls.

Learn more about Abrishade, Uplift and ErcoZip systems

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Multiple Erco Uplift blinds, narrowing at the top were installed for the dome roofing.

 
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Additional straight Erco Uplift blinds were installed on the side walls of the dome.

 
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Double Erco Zip systems were installed on the sloping internal side walls for complete blackout and shade.

 

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 Fabric Tensioning System
11 blinds installed on each side are individually operated to pull to the middle to optimise the light and shade control. Driven by an FTS system.