I greatly admire people who reinvent ordinary everyday things as something revolutionary or breathtakingly wonderful. Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc, and Australian landscape architect Keith Stead are three such people.Without their wonderful ideas and collaboration, One Central Park in Sydney might be just another (albeit luxury) residential apartment building. However, when finished, OCP will don the world’s tallest vertical garden.
Now, that’s fresh!
(A bit of nominative determinism in the case of Mr Nouvel, perhaps? ;-))
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Stories of the Wandering Feet and Mind
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Goodness I clicked on the link, it’s a remarkable building and the gardens are gorgeous. Now, heights don’t scare me but I’d always be wondering about the construction. This is a really fresh way of living – for a privileged few!
Thanks for putting me in your favourites, I’m touched 🙂
Thanks, Gilly – it’s such a great idea for these huge highrises in cities.
Vertical gardens are a great idea, there really should be more of them…
I agree – I would love to see some of the ugly block buildings in Sydney covered in them 🙂
Wow!
It will be wonderful when it’s finished. I want to get down there again soon to see the progress.
Thanks for sharing that…it’s amazing…
Thanks, Sued51 🙂
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I’ve never seen anything like that….what a fabulous use of space and breath of fresh air in the city…not to mention great photo and perspective. Remarkable and thank-you for the pingback!
Thanks, Madelaine – yes, can you imagine the fresh air swirling around the building 🙂
What an innovative idea, bluebee. This is the way to go, for sure. 🙂
It obviously creates quite a challenge, AD – the plants have to be able to weather the winds etc, but it is certainly worth the effort.
Love love this idea and will search the garden out next time I’m in Sydney.
It is worth a look and you get can get to it on the CBD hop-on hop-off bus (do the touristy thing :-))
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goodness what a project…and you made me one of your top 5….awwwwwwww
The light in your photos is amazing, Jo
I’ve watched a show or two on “urban gardens” grown vertically up the building or horizontally on top. It’s a great way to cool buildings.
Wonderful to interweave all that concrete and glass with nature
and now I know what nominative determinism is – hahahaha – but with the maiden name of crook, maybe deep down I already did 😉 A very impressive building but I can imagine how difficult it would be too design such a thing with all the practicalities involved with plants and buildings.
hahahaha – wild, biting moll or coy sheperdess? 😉
It seems creating the garden was quite a challenge – the plants had to be carefully selected for their wind-resistance etc, so quite a remarkable feat, really.
you have a good memory bb 😉 hahaha
Vertical gardens, wow. Where I’m from, we could use some of those. Great post! First time here, I’ll try to keep following now 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Amazing stuff, bb, new perspectives through fresher eyes . xPenx
I love the greening of cities, Pen – we need much more of it
Wonderful take on this theme!
Thanks for popping in and commenting, Naomi 🙂
Our Garden Judges group has just been becoming aquainted with the vertical garden concept, and I posted a pic of one of the pots involved not long ago. It certainly gives a totally different perspective to a city building!
It will be interesting to see it as a mature garden, Col – hope everyone will still be able to see out their windows 🙂
A little judicious pruning …
Yes, perhaps cross-training the window cleaners would be the way to go 🙂
Magnifique!
It goes with green roofs, city agriculture, fruit trees in public garden…and all the good new ideas. Beautiful building!
I love green roofs – something I loved about NYC – seeing all those little patches of green sitting high up in the sky from higher places, such as the Empire State Building
green roofs have been long on the drawing boards, I am so happy that they are becoming more common, even here in Montreal with harsh winters, there are some appearing 🙂
The plant selection would be really interesting
This is fantastic! It’s the first tome I’ve ever seen it – what a great idea 😀
I have to go back and get a closer look, Dianne – would love to have a city weekender in the building (penthouse, preferably ;-))
Lovely idea and healthy too! Just hope the practicalities have been considered, eg pruning and weeding, etc.
Yeah, wouldn’t like to be the gardener looking after it 🙂 heights *shudder*
dizzyingly fresh, BB!
I must go and see how the gardens are progressing, Monica – I love the concept
That’s cool. I love espalier.
I haven’t managed to get there but you might be interested in this installation at the Powerhouse Museum, Mark. It’s on until this Sunday – http://www.sydneydesign.com.au/2013/event/edible-walls/
Great shot!
Thanks, Ruth 🙂