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ONE CENTRAL PARK
T
here’s a couple of remarkable things that
distinguish the new apartment buildings
— One Central Park — that now
dominates Sydney city’s western edge.
First there’s a huge heliostat reflector
that cantilivers out from it’s top; and second there’s
around 1000 square metres of vertical gardens by
France’s Patrick Blanc that dominate the building’s
northern wall. The gardens are reportedly the
biggest of their kind in the world.
One Central Park has just won the Best Tall Building
award in the Asian and Australasian region, from the
Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats (CTBUH)
based in Chicago, USA.One Central Park, East and
West towers, were designed by France’s Pritzker
Prize winning architect Jean Nouvel of Ateliers Jean
Nouvel in conjunction with PTW Architects. Interiors
of the West tower are by Sydney-based practice
Smart Design Studio.
The heliostat reflector cantilevers 20 metres out
from the East tower, 94 metres above the ground. It
carries around 500 square metres of mirrors which
have been specially set to reflect light to shaded
areas at the ground and podium levels. There are also
40 sun-tracking heliostat mirrors located on level 17
of the West Tower. These are designed to follow the
sun’s path and reflect light up onto the array that are
cantilivered out from the East Tower.
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