Foster + Partners' design for a 68,000 sqm commercial campus on Broadway will include a glass façade floating above the restored, heritage-protected Abercrombie Hotel and street-level retail space.
Frasers Property Australia's Central Park development has received project application approval for the first residential and commercial stages in Sydney’s southern CBD.
Approval has been granted for two residential towers designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, comprising 593 apartments above a five-storey, 16,000sqm retail podium located on Broadway.
A commercial campus designed by Foster + Partners, comprising 68,000 sqm on the corner of Broadway and Abercrombie Street on Broadway, has also been approved.
Construction will commence on the Ateliers Jean Nouvel residential towers – One Central Park – by the end of the year.
One Central Park's eastern residential tower will rise to 116m (matching the height of the UTS tower) and the western tower to 64.5m high, with a total value of around $650 million. Construction is expected to be completed mid-2013.
Nouvel collaborated with French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc, incorporating over a dozen vertical gardens across the façades of the towers. Garden boxes and vertical wires incorporated into every loggia will wrap the towers in plant life, extending the central parkland at the heart of the new precinct.
One Central Park's eastern residential tower will rise to 116m (matching the height of the UTS tower) and the western tower to 64.5m high, with a total value of around $650 million.
One Central Park’s eastern tower features an heliostat installation, extending from the upper levels on a monumental cantilever.
The heliostat incorporates a system of fixed and motorised mirrored panels designed to capture sunlight and redirect it into the retail atrium and onto the landscaped terraces. At night the heliostat’s integrated lighting - designed by lighting artist Yann Kersale - will illuminate the towers.
Foster + Partners' design for a 68,000 sqm commercial campus on Broadway will include a glass façade floating above the restored, heritage-protected Abercrombie Hotel and street-level retail space. Construction of the commercial campus is expected to commence in 2011.
"We have ensured that each stage of Central Park not only features outstanding international design but is also sustainable, taking us closer to our goal of achieving the first 6 star Green Star mixed-use precinct in Australia," says Dr Stanley Quek, managing director of Frasers Property Australia.
It will include on-site trigeneration with the goal of carbon neutrality in operation, a water recycling and blackwater treatment plant and passive solar design. Central Park is expected to take up to 10 years to complete.
Construction is already underway on the $2 billion precinct, which occupies 5.8 hectares on the site of the former Carlton United Brewery (CUB), following approval of the 6,500 sqm main park and road infrastructure works in February this year.
