Saw this building - the grey green one on the right, in Sydney but couldn't find anyone who knew anything about it For about a year now, I have been wondering about a green fringed building I glimpsed from the train window on the way back from Canberra last year. It turns out that it is Number One Central Park built by French design group Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Sydney Architects PTW and which was voted best tallest building in the world (beating 87 other competitors) by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at Chicago’s Illionois Institute of Technology for its “visible use of green design.” Here's a better image by Sardaka (talk) 08:28, 8 July 2014 ( -Image | UTC) [ CC BY 3.0 The building which consists of 623 apartments is more than a pretty face. As well as the 35,200 plants in its hanging gardens, it has a grey water plant which keeps the building green and is expected to save the city one million litres of drinking water a d...
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