The Ribbon is a hotel, apartment building, retail store and movie theatre located in Darling Harbour, Sydney. It houses the W Sydney hotel and the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world. The building is named The Ribbon due to its unusual ribbon-looking appearance.[1] On its northern and southern sides, the building is flanked by two carriageways of the Western Distributor.
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The Ribbon in September 2023
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Location | 31-33 Wheat Road, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Coordinates | 33°52′40″S 151°11′58″E / 33.877898°S 151.199573°E / -33.877898; 151.199573 |
Type | Movie theatre and hotel |
Opened | 12 October 2023 (2023-10-12) |
Builder | Grocon Probuild Multiplex |
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The Ribbon is built upon the site of the old IMAX theatre which was built in 1996 and was demolished after closing in 2016.[2]
Construction on the new building started in 2017, was finished in 2022 and opened on 12 October 2023.[3][4][5] The Ribbon was originally scheduled to be completed in 2020 but was delayed due by the bankruptcy of two of its builders, Grocon and Probuild, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7] It was completed by Multiplex opening in October 2023.[8][9]
The building has 588 rooms and suites and includes a rooftop heated infinity pool and wet deck with a two-storey bar, several other bars, a spa, a BTWN restaurant, meeting rooms and a 325-seat cinema with the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world with a slightly curved IMAX screen that is 692 square metres (7,450 sq ft) or 29 m × 24 m (95 ft × 79 ft) which is also the second-tallest and fourth-largest screen ever built, surpassed only by the Melbourne IMAX theatre screen which measures 736 square metres (7,920 sq ft), 32 m × 23 m (105 ft × 75 ft), the Traumpalast cinema hall in Leonberg, Germany which has a screen measuring 836 square metres (9,000 sq ft), 38 m × 22.2 m (125 ft × 73 ft) and the screen in the previous theatre building that it replaced, which measured 1,056 square metres (11,370 sq ft) 35.72 m × 29.57 m (117.2 ft × 97.0 ft).[3][10][11]
Media related to IMAX Theatre Sydney at Wikimedia Commons