Atlassian's $1.4B Sydney tower reaches full height, will be world's tallest hybrid timber building

High above Sydney's Central Station, a 39-storey tower of timber, steel, and concrete has reached its full height — a quiet but consequential moment in how cities imagine their futures. Atlassian Central, valued at $1.4 billion and set to become the world's tallest hybrid timber structure upon its 2027 completion, represents a convergence of environmental ambition, technological aspiration, and urban strategy. Its rise comes, however, in the same year the company shed 500 Australian jobs to fund artificial intelligence — a tension the building itself cannot resolve, only embody.