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Growing the World’s Tallest Vertical Garden in Sydney

Mihai AndreibyMihai Andrei
September 10, 2013
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Patrick Blanc is a French botanist, typically wrongly credited as the inventor of the vertical garden (aka. Green Wall, Botanical Brick), a title which belongs to Professor Stanley Hart White at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1938). Still, Patrick Blanc is certainly modern innovator of the green wall – a wall, either free-standing or part of a building, that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and, in some cases, soil or an inorganic growing medium.

Plans for One Central Park: a vertical garden.
Plans for One Central Park: a vertical garden.
Plans for One Central Park: a vertical garden.
Plans for One Central Park: a vertical garden.

Now, he has teamed up with French architect and Pritzker laureate Jean Nouvel to create a a “living, breathing Eden” in One Central Park, Sydney’s newest residential tower: a symbolic and symbiotic combination of practicality, environmentalism and esthetics.

Leafy vines and foliage will crawl up the 166-meter facade and create the world’s tallest living green wall – no later than January 2014, only a few months from now.

The living wall will consist of 190 native Australian and 160 exotic plant species and it will cover 50% of the building facade, in an attempt of replicating a natural cliff side.

One Central Park will consist of two residential towers that house 624 apartments.

Via Inhabitat.

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