Nauru House

Nauru House 80 Collins Street; Birdshit Tower
Nauru House
Basic data
Place:	Melbourne
Construction time :	1972-1977
Opening:	April 1977
Status :	Completed
Architectural style :	Modern
Architects :	Perrott Lyon Timlock & Kesa
Use / legal
Usage :	office building
Technical specifications
Height :	190 m
Height to the roof:	182 m
Floors :	50
Elevators :	20th
Usable area :	50,500 m²
Building material :	Reinforced concrete
Height comparison
Melbourne :	11. ( list )
Australia :	29. ( list )
address
Address:	80 Collins Street
Post Code:	3000
City:	Melbourne

The Nauru House is a 190 m high skyscraper in Melbourne . It is one of the foreign properties that was acquired by the island republic of Nauru in the 1980s. The skyscraper is known locally as the Birdshit Tower , as the owner Nauru achieved great wealth by exporting phosphates from seabird excrement . The building is often named after its address 80 Collins Street . At the time of its inauguration in April 1977, it was briefly the tallest skyscraper in Australia before being surpassed by the MLC Center in Sydney after three months .

In 2004 the building was occupied by creditors of the Nauruan government, so that it had to vacate its institutions such as a branch of Air Nauru , the Nauruan consulate and the presidential suite. In November 2004 , Nauru House was sold to the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) for approximately $ 140 million .

Coordinates: 37 ° 48 ′ 48 ″  S , 144 ° 58 ′ 15 ″  E

predecessor	title	successor
AMP Center	Tallest building in Australia 1977 (April-July)	MLC Center
Optus Center	Tallest building in Melbourne 1977–1986	Rialto Towers