![]() ![]() “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.’’ “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. “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. “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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