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One Central Park is a striking reminder that nature can thrive in the city. The spectacular façade is the canvas for a collection of breathtaking vertical gardens.
This is green living utterly redefined. The revolutionary symbiotic planting and building concept for Sydney’s newest residence, is an integrated experience for living in harmony with the natural world.
One Central Park is built around a beautiful, spacious park, Chippendale Green, that is the heart of the new precinct. More than 6,400 square metres of parks and public spaces welcomes local communities into the heart of Central Park.
This building in Sydney uses two unusual technologies for tall buildings - hydroponics and heliostats - to grow plants around the periphery of the building at all levels. The shading saves cooling energy, while the heliostat directs sunlight for heating and lighting into or away from the building and the adjoining park when it is most needed. It strategically casts light about itself to reduce rooftop heat loads and stir visual interest at height and on the ground, while enshrouding itself in lush greenery.

Harukas” is an old Japanese expression meaning “to brighten, to clear up.”
As its namesake suggests, ABENO HARUKAS embodies the exhilation of clear, sweeping
views of Osaka from its top floor 300 meters in the air.
The complex’s wide array of facilities and amenities answer every need,
promising every visitor a relaxing time in a bright, comfortable environment.
ABENO HARUKAS is the future of multifunctional urban space in the sky.
Upon completion Abeno Harukas became the tallest building in Japan, but its significance extends beyond this, to its anchoring role in the urban core of one of the country's great cities, and for its novel use of greenery. The building, situated above a major rail terminal, maximizes the density of the plot, but breaks up its mass with shifting volumes and sunlit sky lobbies and setbacks for sky gardens. Three volumes with different floor area are shifted and stacked to intake sunlight and wind to the cascading greenery of the central void. The gardens placed on setbacks reconcile the vertical greenery with that of the adjacent park. The public observatories challenge expectations by incorporating greenery, offering an open-air courtyard surrounded by the observation ramps, and deploying full-height glass in the restrooms.

Abeno Harukas, Osaka, Japan