Australia builds the world's tallest vertical garden
Patrick Blanc, the inventor of the concept of the vertical garden, and the French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up to create a magnificent project in One Central Park, the newest residential tower in Sydney, Australia. The leafy vegetation will occupy a front of 166 feet tall, creating one that is expected to be the tallest living wall in the world.Based on a symbiotic combination between landscape and building, the revolutionary design prepares to redefine the appearance of the city. The project combines the green space with the building, using a lush green carpet of plants and gardens on terraces as physical extensions of the surrounding Central Park, of 6,400 m2.The wall is composed of 190 species of flowering plants native to Australia and 160 species of exotic plants and will cover 50% of the façade of the building. According to Blanc, the project seeks to replicate a cliff and resemble "a giant slice of the Blue Mountains placed in the middle of the city".The One Central Park will consist of two residential towers with 624 apartments. There will still be room for 38 luxury penthouses positioned on a protruding structure on the heights, as well as a system of motorised mirrors that capture and direct sunlight down to the surrounding gardens. At night, the protruding structure will be transformed into a shimmering LED art installation created by the artist Yann Kersalé.The completion of the project is scheduled for January 2014.
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