The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat(CTBUH) last night namedAtelier Jean Nouvel‘s One Central Park (OCP) inSydneythe year’s best tall building. OCP turned the site of a former brewery into a residential high-rise lush with hydroponic hanging gardens and a massive mirror cantilevered over the building’s courtyard that harvests sunlight for heat and lighting year-round.
One Central Park,considered the world’s tallest vertical garden, bested projects from SOM, OMA, and Cutler Anderson Architects for the award. Those buildings—a twisting tower in Dubai, a melded mass of high-rises, and a midcentury office tower reborn as a green icon—each won regional awards from CTBUH. But One Central Park’s use of greenery bybotantist and green wall guru Patrick Blancwon the day.
One Central Park (Richard Braddish)“Seeing this project for the first time stopped me dead,” said juror and CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood. “There have been major advances in the incorporation of greenery in high-rise buildings over the past few years—but nothing on the scale of this building has been attempted or achieved.”
在芝加哥接受该奖项half of his firm, Atliers Jean Nouvel Partner Bertram Beissel said the project increases the visibility of sustainable design. “If we do all these sustainable things and no one can see them, do they really exist?” Beissel said. “The choices we make for a sustainable future cannot be made in the future. They must be made today.”
Read more aboutthe building on CTBUH’s website.
OMA’sCCTV Towerin Beijingwon last year’s competition.
A rendering of One Central Park in Sydney, displaying the heliostat that reflects sunlight into a generator during hot summer months and down into amenity spaces for warmth in winter. (Atelier Jean Nouvel)
