One Central Park is an awe-inspiring collaboration between Jean Nouvel and French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc. The revolutionary symbiotic planting and building concept for Sydney’s newest residence is an integrated experience for living in harmony with the natural world.
“Landscape is architecture,” declares Nouvel. “Here we have created a continuity so the façades extend the park into the sky.” Parklands
One Central Park is built around a beautiful, spacious park that will be the living heart of the new precinct. More than 30,000 sqm of parks and public spaces will welcome local communities into the heart of Central Park. Conceived by Denmark’s Jeppe Aagaard Anderson and Sydney’s Turf Design, the park will be framed by striking contemporary and heritage architecture.
“Central Park will be a place for people to come together, get out of the office and feel the sunshine. It’s a safe, social place – a green haven in a busy urban environment.” Says Mike Horne of Turf Design.
The public park at the heart of the precinct climbs the side of the floor-to-ceiling glass towers to form a lush 21st century canopy. Like notes on a stave, the buds and blooms of the vegetation form a musical composition on the façade. The effect is a tree house retreat – a hi-tech bower. Vines and leafy foliage springing out of the between-floor planters and provide the perfect frame for panoramic views across one of the world’s most beautiful cities to mountains and ocean. One Central Park offers Blanc a starry canvas of an entirely new scale using 250 species of Australian flowers and plants that changes with the seasons.
Park Lane’s apartments are an integral part of the unique Central Park precinct. Heritage brewery structures preserving the area’s history become cultural or entertaining spaces close to cafes, boutiques and galleries. Bold and glamorous residential and business architecture is delivered by the world’s best creative studios.
The second residential stage of Central Park, Park Lane, offers true park living in the city, in a pair of theatrical buildings designed by JPW Architects, located right alongside Chippendale Green – the 6,400sqm of parkland at the heart of Central Park.
The two buildings of Park Lane are linked by a Mews-style laneway lined with one bedroom terrace-style homes and SOHOs, intimately connected to the park. The distinctive facades feature irregular panels of coloured and textured glass, concealing flexible loggias within. 1, 3 and 5 Park Lane are the addresses for the low-rise eight-storey park-side buildng, with 8 Park Lane rising on the other side of the laneway to 18 storeys.
