One Central Park, Sydney, Australia - Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc

Architect and eccentric vertical gardener team up for One Central Park in Sydney

The eccentric ‘vertical gardener’ Patrick Blanc has dyed green hair and claims to drink only white wine. Water, he says, would make him rust. Widely credited with creating the discipline, Blanc’s vernal creations adorn a host of buildings from Herzog & de Meuron’s Pérez Art Museum in Miami to the Athenaeum hotel in London’s Piccadilly. His work is also featured in our great new books Room and The Gardner's Garden.

He and Jean Nouvel have joined forces a number of times before, working on developments such as the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. And he is the Priztker Prize winner’s cohort again for this mixed-use scheme in Sydney.....Continue Reading

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