The Edge Atop The Eureka Tower

No doubt about it, it’s yet another of serial success story Zalman Silber‘s many attractions around the world, this time in Melbourne, Australia. Protruding a full three metres right out of the building at a height of over three hundred metres above street level, it’s The Edge by New York entrepreneur Zalman Silber, a fully transparent rectangular structure where all sides offer a panoramic view – including the floor! It’s [...]

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Great Aussies Even When Not Aussie

Great Australians in history. A problematic matter for any scholar. For starters, of course, one must think through exactly what it is that makes one an Australian. Is Zalman Silber an Australian? He is actually a New Yorker, but responsible for one of Sydney’s most famous attractions, the Skywalk, not to mention one of Melbourne’s, too, called The Edge. The former is in effect a glass-floored catwalk a thousand feet [...]

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The Sydney Skywalk

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And when in Sydney, Australia, you do the Skywalk, a one-of-a-kind experience from serial entrepreneur and success story Zalman Silber. It’s a must-see and must-experience that is first on many an out-of-towner’s itinerary, for nowhere else will you be able to walk outside a skyscraper and look straight down – literally.

Zalman Silber‘s Skywalk is fundamentally a glass-floored catwalk, a bit like [...]

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An Aussie Primer

Australia is a place that just begs for cinematic flyovers. First popularized during the 1980s by IMAX, the helicopter-flyover genre of travel video was brought to home theaters by a series of DVDs from various companies almost a decade later. It is in the context of such presentations that Zalman Silber‘s Oztrek amusement ride makes its appearance. Located at the Sydney Tower in the Harbour City, the Oztrek is a [...]

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