Australian Residential Tower Named ‘Best Tall Building Worldwide’

Australian Residential Tower Named ‘Best Tall Building Worldwide’
CHICAGO—A residential building in Sydney has been named the “Best Tall building Worldwide” by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). One Central Park beat 87 other international entries, and was commended for its visible use of green design. Key features include hanging gardens, a cantilevered heliostat, an internal water recycling plant and a low-carbon trigeneration power plant. The building’s most visible feature, the hanging gardens, use a remote-controlled, dripper irrigation system and a special process in which the roots of each plant are attached to a mesh-covered felt, soaked with mineralized water. This allows the plants to grow without soil along the faces of the building envelope. The building’s trigeneration plant is due to be completed in November 2015 and is expected to save the equivalent of 136,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions over 25 years.