Gardens and Landscaping The design sits the building wings back from Pybus Street to create a generous garden in which to linger and spill out as an unaffected foreground to the architecture . The use of a few of the parking levels to lift the building ’ s ground floor above the street around in a landscaped podium , creates privacy and security , while affording the building users wonderful views from the public spaces . The glazed street level lobby ensures the building is not removed from its city context .
The natural landscape complements the entrance , and the variety of swathes of indigenous planting , lawn , integral seating spaces and raised planters create a diversity of places for sitting out and taking lunch , or breaking from meetings . The orientation and the detailed landscape design together with the glazed edge balustrade ensures that there is always a choice of sunny , shady , and wind-free spaces with views to enjoy .
The folding stacking doors at the coffee shop are regularly opened completely allowing the transition between inside and outside spaces to blur and seamlessly function together . On higher levels , terraces on each corner of the floorplate open to the outside , linking the office environment to the natural context .
The same level of attention was brought to the streetscape , where a regular beat of trees are set into densely planted beds which make the walk along the building at street level pleasant and verdant . The podium façade is dressed with a combination of stone and planted screens which increase the garden area , and speak to the similar detail at 90 Rivonia .
Sustainability 2 Pybus has achieved a 4-star GBCSA Green Star rating . A combination of sensible passive design principles and selected active technologies have been used to minimise the impact of the building and its ongoing use on the environment , as well as to enhance the experience of working in and visiting the building . One of the more unusual aspects of the scheme was the focus on individuality necessitated by the particular working style of the tenants – as a result , not only are individual thermostats and lights provided , but so are openable windows .
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