He said the buildings would “help revitalise and excite the area’’ around the BMW Southbank site at 118 City Road and offer a snapshot “not just of a future city but the exemplar for all that follows’’. “I think this shows the confidence Melbourne puts back into its city both as sustainable and being known for being green and progressive and innovative.’’ Since February, when problems at 432 Park exploded into public consciousness in a New York Times story titled, The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks, only two sales. “Effectively we’ve wrapped the beautiful boulevards and parkland of Melbourne into a building, into a vertical boulevard, to bring back the garden state’’ he said. A recent article by Stephanos Chen in the New York Times, The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks, describes the engineering problems that arise in such buildings. “It’s going to be a very vibrant space and there is also an opportunity for events to happen, be it music, food festivals,’’ she said.Ĭox Architecture director Phil Rowe said it would give Victoria back its Garden State motto. The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks 432 Park, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate. “This is the tallest vertical garden in the world, it hasn’t been done before at this scale so we hope that it sets a precedent for other skyscrapers to follow suit as well,’’ she said.Ī publicly accessible botanic “sky garden” will be the biggest green space, with more large botanic areas planned for a podium rooftop between the buildings, outdoor dining areas and a running track. In an exclusive interview, Beulah executive director Adelene Teh said the vertical gardens would also attract birdlife, help produce oxygen, provide vegie patches and filter dust and pollution.

Vertical “pocket parks’’ modelled on suburban community hubs will be perched throughout the twisting towers every eight to 10 storeys.Īnd an irrigation system will collect water from the building’s terraces to store underground and reuse on plants that are expected to cool the area in summer and warm it in winter. More than 6,000 sqm of gardens will be planted as part of 15,500 sqm of landscaped space in the twin towers, including greenery from ground level to outdoor areas about 100 storeys high. The Herald Sun can reveal it will also include a sky high external garden covering 5.5km - one and a half times the length of The Tan running track.

Southbank by Beulah will become Australia’s tallest tower – so big at 365m high it needs Civil Aviation Safety Authority approval – when it is built near Melbourne’s arts precinct. World’s tallest ‘vertical garden’ set for side of Melbourne’s new tallest skyscraperĪ $2 billion Melbourne skyscraper will boast the world’s tallest “vertical garden’’ in a move expected to set a global precedent for incorporating nature into major developments.

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