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The World’s Tallest Vertical Garden
waterfall of flowering vegetation
running down the facade of One
Central Park, a major mixed-use
development in Sydney.
The One Central Park building
facade is 50% covered in green living
plants. The leaf-sprouting skyrise
features hundreds of species of
native and exotic plants overflowing
from planters lodged between
14 floors. It is the highest vertical
garden in the world.
One Central Park Vertical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
Patrick Blanc is a French botanist
who has pursued his life passion
of building vertical gardens since
the late 1960s. The plantman has
worked with many architects over
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the decades to grow sustainable
green walls.
His latest project is his career’s
masterwork: a 545-foot-tall
The development’s primary
architect, Jean Nouvel, is a Pritzker
winner who has designed many
striking buildings – the Technicolor
tusk that is Barcelona’s Torre Agbar,
for instance, and the block-stuffed
Musée du quai Branly in Paris.
The sprawling green wall will suck
up sunlight during the afternoons
and artificial light at night, thanks to
a tremendous contraption mounted
high above.
A heliostat, an assemblage of
motorized mirrors captures sunlight
and directs its rays down onto
Central Park’s gardens year round.
After dark, the structure becomes a
canvas for leading light artist Yann
Kersalé’s LED art installation of
firework movements.
It is an exciting time for Sydney in
terms of ambitious architectural
projects.One Central Park
apartments start at $750,000
and it contains some luxurious
penthouses that is attracting a lot of
people with green fingers and deep
pockets.