Dive summary:
- One Central Park is the developer Frasers contribution to an effort called Sustainable Sydney 2030, comprising two towers, a 6,900-square-foot garden, 21 gardens on the walls and a 29th-story cantilevered platform with motorized mirrors to collect sunlight and focus it on the garden below and its own sky garden.
- The developer is putting $102 million into sustainable technologies that include solar panels, water recycling and tri-generation energy plants that generate electricity and use the resulting heat to heat water and to cool it with an absorption chiller for air conditioning.
- Plans call for 1,900 residences to be ready for occupation by the end of 2013, including 623 apartments and college housing, a hotel and retail and commercial spaces.
From the article:
A major urban redevelopment is taking place in Sydney, Australia, as it attempts to become one of the word’s most livable green cities within a 20-year time-frame as part of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision. ...