Sydney’s One Central Park has been named as one of the four best buildings in the world for 2014 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

The 117-metre residential skyscraper will vie against three other buildings for the title of the Best Tall Building Worldwide at the CTBUH 13th Annual Awards Symposium later this year.

The other nominees include:

• The Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, Portland, USA (Americas)
• De Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Europe)
• Cayan Tower, Dubai, UAE (Middle East & Africa)

The four winners were chosen from a total of 88 entrants worldwide.

This year’s entries featured a number of buildings for which designers implemented greenery at sky-high levels – most notably One Central Park, which features a public park, a lush canopy and greenery embedded in the architecture in the form of the world’s tallest vertical garden.The vertical garden, created by Patrick Blanc, makes use of hydroponics and heliostats.

A series of renovation projects also impressed the judges, including the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building Portland. The 18-storey tower was transformed from an outdated 1874 commercial building to one that now meets LEED standards and the energy and water conservation requirements of the Energy Independence & Security Act (EISA). 

Additionally “new horizons in form were pushed aggressively, yielding towers in ‘wheel’ or ‘doughnut’ shape and playing off proximity to water,” according to the CTBUH.....Continue Reading

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