Luxury building Monad Terrace introduces its latest residence, located within a stand-alone 6-story building and featuring interior furnishings crafted in Italy by furniture and design house MORADA-Haute Furniture Boutique.

Taking inspiration from the building’s architect Ateliers Jean Nouvel, MORADA selected hand-crafted furniture that mixes Italian leathers and stones with the light and airiness of the building’s design, and the lush climbing gardens of native Bougainvillea and Passion Vines. This is in the same spirit that Nouvel created at Monad Terrace, where he interplays nature and the indoors.

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“We wanted to transform the space into a personalized ambiance that invokes all of the senses while honoring Nouvel’s innovative design,” said MORADA founders Fernan Hernandez and Holger Odenstein. “With this residence, we are telling a story that fuses timeless shapes and materials with natural features for a flawless Oasis on the Bay." 

This juxtaposition of indoors and outdoors is manifested perfectly in Residence 1A of the new building. This three-bed, three-and-a-half-bath home has 3,892 square feet of space and is right on Monad Terrace’s signature lagoon. The expansive waterfront terrace and light, open floor plan really encapsulates the indoor-outdoor living experience for the owner. 

Photo Credit: Alexia Fodere for Monad Terrace and MORADA-Haute Furniture Boutique

“MORADA’s design team was able to exquisitely complement the brilliant architecture and craftsmanship at Monad Terrace, evoking a sense of serenity and capturing a distinctive lifestyle that can’t be found anywhere else,” said Michael Stern, the project’s developer, and Founder/CEO of JDS Development Group.

Monad Terrace is comprised of 59 light-filled waterfront residences specifically designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel. The newest building is a continuation of the luxurious and elevated living areas invented by the first. 

Photo Credit: Alexia Fodere for Monad Terrace and MORADA-Haute Furniture Boutique

Owners at Monad Terrace have access to superior amenities and features including private elevator access, in-house concierge, a sun deck with a 116-foot swimming pool and hot tub overlooking Biscayne Bay, valet parking, a café and juice bar, a wellness center, private dock, and a bicycle and water sports storage room.

The residence is located at 1300 Monad Terrace in Miami Beach. Sales and marketing are managed exclusively by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing. For more information, please call 305.695.0888 or visit monadterrace.miami.

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André Fu

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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel with interior architecture by Thierry Despont, 53 West 53 features 145 residences ranging in size from one- to four-bedrooms, including full-floor homes and duplex penthouses with private elevators. The building’s tapering design and Nouvel’s signature exposed structural system, known as the diagrid, which means that the layout of each residence is completely unique.

“53 West 53 is an architectural masterpiece,” said David Penick, Managing Director at Hines. “We commissioned André Fu to design our first model residence because his modernist sensibilities complement Jean Nouvel’s completely unique architecture.”

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The residence features distinctive design elements that evoke an artful mindset.  Fu collaborated with French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin to curate key artworks showcased throughout the home.

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New pieces from the Andre Fu Living collection, that recently debuted at Milan’s Furniture Fair, are featured extensively throughout the space. The collection is inspired by Fu’s childhood memories of memorable places and different cultures that informed Fu’s distinct aesthetic. The furniture pieces complement the residence’s unique architecture with a palette of stained grey oak and anodized bronze, highlighted with subtle accents of dusty burgundy and mineral blue.

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Walking into the home, visitors are greeted by a stunning, minimalist canvas artwork by renowned Korean artist Pak Seo Bo. It sits above a custom-made cast bronze console table set on limed oak flooring. The corner living room includes a bespoke sculptural curvilinear screen in high gloss piano lacquer that depicts the silhouette of the city’s skyline. It is set against a plush ivory sofa and the Interlock coffee tables from the AFL collection.

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The separate dining area includes a vast six-seater dining table and a handmade screen partition designed by Fu. The master bedroom suite showcases a palette of expressive mineral blue and icy grays. The secondary bedroom features a Bamboo Watercolor carpet, and an ottoman upholstered in mud salmon, accented with a palette of dusty burgundy. The space is finished with stunning bronze table lamps with glowing cast glass, as well as an array of modern century inspired objects.

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53 West 53 has the unique distinction of being integrated into MoMA’s architecturally distinguished urban campus. Three new gallery levels will be created within the base of the building, each accessed from and connected with the museum’s existing exhibition spaces. Residents will receive deeded memberships at MoMA, which include the potential for the building to host private events in the museum’s iconic Sculpture Garden.

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Greenwich West 

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Greenwich West is the first tower in NYC designed by a female French architect and one of the tallest buildings in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan.  At 30 stories, the condominium serves as an urban lookout, providing panoramas of the Hudson River, New York Harbor, and Statue of Liberty. Designed by Loci Anima, acclaimed Paris-based architecture firm founded by Françoise Raynaud, who spent nearly two decades working alongside legendary French architect Jean Nouvel, Greenwich West is located at 110 Charlton Street in West SoHo. Raynaud brings her Parisian influences to life in a modern setting and seamlessly blends 20th-century French design with a classic New York loft feel. Greenwich West features a handmade brick facade with custom glazed brick accents made specifically for the project by the venerable Belgium brickworks Wienerberger. The building’s Art Deco-inspired curved corners lend a softness to the tower, while industrial-style casement windows – framed by elegant hand-laid brick patterns and custom pewter-glazed brick borders – salute the neighborhood’s heritage. Receding gracefully, Greenwich West’s intricate setbacks and 290-foot height allow for sprawling terraces in many homes and hallmark river views.

The Symon

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Located between Court Street and Boerum Place, The Symon is Brooklyn's newest full-service boutique luxury condominium, offering 59 one-to-four bedroom contemporary residences with an elevated design sensibility and acute attention to detail, as well as a thoughtfully curated amenities selection. Steeped in history, the name, The Symon, is a nod to the patriarch of the Schermerhorn family, whose aristocratic mercantile legacy dates back to the 1600s. Known for their sense of civic duty and philanthropy efforts as a patron of the arts and educational institutions of New York – particularly Columbia University – The Symon celebrates the confluence of history and culture, commerce and education. With interiors and the captivating facade designed by Studio DB, The Symon reveals modern residences inspired by historic Brooklyn, showcasing a facade with distinctive arched windows, prominent canopied entry and hand-laid brick. Taking inspiration from the celebrated heritage of Brooklyn Heights, The Symon marries rich, natural materials with classic detailing to evoke the character and distinction of the neighborhood’s treasured townhouses and grand apartments.

40 Bleecker

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NoHo, Manhattan's historically-landmarked neighborhood, is home to 40 Bleecker, the new 12-story ground-up luxury residential development that has interiors by AD100 Ryan Korban. With architecture by Rawlings Architects, 40 Bleecker seamlessly blends modern design with the quality and distinction of buildings constructed a century ago. The striking brick and metal façade features punched glass window openings that are an important nod to the past and a reference to the historic, landmarked buildings within the surrounding NoHo neighborhood. Undulating in a step-like fashion at the top three penthouse levels and gently curving at its corners to maximize light and views, 40 Bleecker offers a boldly contemporary exterior design well situated among the historically industrial pre-war buildings of its surroundings.

Rose Hill

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Developed by the original builders of Rockefeller Center and designed with a vintage Gotham-esque flair, Rose Hill is a new 45-story luxury condominium tower currently under construction at 30 East 29th Street in NoMad. With architecture and interior design by CetraRuddy, the acclaimed global architecture firm is known for successfully blending modern design with crafted detail, Rose Hill draws a direct connection back to Rockefeller Center with its heavy Art Deco influence of the 20th century. Rising over 600 feet in height, the building is eloquently clad in a bronze-tone façade, accented by intricate detailing that frames expansive glass windows. Taking its place among New York’s architectural icons and inspired by the Rockefeller Group’s landmark developments, decorative lighting will illuminate the tower’s base and crown to highlight the building’s unique articulation. The contemporary design, although rooted in the past, speaks to today's modern New Yorker.

30 Park Place Four Seasons Private Residences

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Designed inside and out by world-renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, 30 Park Place —downtown's tallest condominium tower —features 157 ultra-luxury condominium residences that have been meticulously designed to offer the most gracious layouts, a full suite of private amenities as well as access to the hotel amenities, and the impeccable service of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. A return to the classic materials, 30 Park Place’s design recalls the towers of the 1920s and 30s with an intricacy of shape and a strong skyline silhouette. The exterior of the building evokes a classic New York façade with precast concrete panels that mirror limestone. Designed to maximize views, large bay windows are located throughout the tower, allowing for ample daylight and stunning panoramas of the city no matter where you are in the building.

180 East 88th Street

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Situated in the Upper East Side's coveted Carnegie Hill neighborhood, 180 East 88th Street is a striking condominium offering 48 graciously-appointed residences ranging from lofts to five-bedrooms, full floor and duplex units and a gracious triplex penthouse. Developed by DDG and partner Global Holdings, 180 East 88th Street is inspired by the pre-war boom in high-rise masonry construction in New York during the 1920s – 1940s, paying homage to the lost art of traditional craftsmanship while maintaining a modern aesthetic. The striking custom façade is comprised of nearly 600,000 handmade, handset bricks from world-renowned brickworks Petersen Tegl.

100 Franklin

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A new development located in Tribeca, DDG's 100 Franklin is an architecturally-distinctive building illustrating how a modern building can be created within a historic district. Two triangular buildings are uniquely joined together, offering 10 full-floor condominium homes with direct elevator access, including two duplex penthouses with expansive rooftop terraces. The buildings feature a striking hand-laid brick façade comprised of handmade bricks by world-renowned brickworks Petersen Tegl. The stunning custom façade situates the development in its historical area while simultaneously bringing a modern design twist to the building.

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New York City has some of the top museums in the world, most of which are massive budgets, starchitect-designed buildings that are art in themselves. Therefore, views of these creations are art in themselves, not to mention if you have a view of these museums, you are also in close proximity to viewing their collections on a daily basis.

Overlooking the American Museum of Natural History
101 West 78th Street, Upper West Side
Apt 4A, available for $11.45M

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With views of both Roosevelt Park and the American Museum of Natural History, this classic five bedroom corner home has tons of oversized windows to take in the special views. With interiors by Architectural Digest “AD 100” designer Stephen Sills, this 4,820 square foot home features an enormous great room on the park with 11’ ceilings, an exceptional foyer that leads to a grand gallery, 3” wide oak herringbone floors, an elegant library, and four and a half bathrooms.

Overlooking the Guggenheim
12 East 88th Street, Upper East Side
Apt PH11A, available for $11.5M

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This incredible, 4,030 square foot penthouse residence has spectacular views over Central Park’s reservoir and the iconic copper dome of the Guggenheim Museum. With four bedrooms with four-and-half baths, a dining room and study, oversized eat-in kitchen, double-faced gas fireplace the home also has three magnificent private terraces totaling 1,141 square feet.

The home has a large master bedroom suite with two walk-in-closets, french-glass doors to a private terrace, and a luxurious five piece Dolomiti windowed marble master bathroom. Each of the three additional bedrooms feature De Savoie marble-clad en-suite baths with extensive closet space throughout.

Overlooking the Metropolitan Museum of Art
988 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side
PH, available for $100,000/month

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This duplex penthouse has two enormous landscaped terraces with truly breathtaking views of Central Park and the Met. The monthly rent includes daily maid service Monday through Friday including laundry and ironing, weekly fresh flowers and a gardener to maintain the outdoor. This home offers hotel living in a boutique building located in one of the most coveted locations in Manhattan.

Overlooking/On top of the Museum of Modern Art
53W53, Midtown West
Apt 18A, available for $7.055M

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Situated above the Museum of Modern Art and a few blocks from Central Park, the starchitect Jean Nouvel-designed 53W53 is a collection of 145 unique residences with super-luxury, hotel-like services and amenities. With interiors by Thierry Despont, Residence 18A is a 2,462 square foot north and east-facing two bedroom featuring high ceilings, 4" wide plank solid American oak floors, fully customized kitchens and baths, and elegantly crafted furniture-grade mahogany doors of over 9', with custom designed bronze hardware inspired by the tower's distinctive silhouette. The master bath is clad in Noir St. Laurent marble, golden travertine and Verona limestone, with a custom-carved stone vanity and medicine cabinet above. The master bath also features radiant heated floors and Dornbracht fittings and accessories.

Overlooking the 9/11 Museum
30 Park Place, Tribeca
Apt PH78B, available at $29.5M

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This half floor duplex penthouse is located on the 78th and 79th floors of the 5-star 30 Park Place, Four Seasons Private Residences New York, Downtown. Developed by Silverstein Properties, Inc., and designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, this residence’s sweeping river views, the downtown skyline, New York Harbor, the 9/11 Museum and beyond. Some of the otherworldly features include a double-height Loggia, gas burning fireplace, private elevator, library with wet bar, formal dining room and media room - not to mention all of the amenities in the Four Seasons.

Overlooking the Brooklyn Museum
856 Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights
Unit 10A, asking $2.575M

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This three bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom residence features over 1,600 square feet of interior living space and a private balcony with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn Museum and Prospect Park. The interiors feature architectural textures of marble, steel and natural wood. The open floor plan kitchen has walnut cabinetry, fully integrated Thermador appliances, Pietra del Cardosa stone countertops and Blanco satin polished sinks outfitted with Dornbracht faucets.

Take in the views or stroll across the street to the latest exhibit. None of these homes will leave you feeling deprived of culture or luxury.

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Towering above the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in Midtown Manhattan 53W53 stands like a beacon of high end living in the neighborhood. The condominium tower, designed by Thierry Despont and Jean Nouvel, stands at 1,050 feet and feature 145 residences in the space ranging from one to five bedrooms, including full floor homes and duplex penthouses with elevators.

The building’s latest renderings reveal the true art of the tower, a silver beam standing above the museum, tapering at the highest points into a thin blade in the sky. The design, from Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel, is perfectly at home above the Museum of Modern Art, being a testament to modern architectural design and a beautiful addition to the midtown skyline.

Despont’s interiors are also beautifully in the designer’s character, with neutral tones, minimalist aesthetics, and a unique blend of material and spacing that feels both contemporary and cozy at once. In addition to the residences, the building also provides an indoor pool, wine cellar, and breathtaking views of Central Park from one of the best vantage points in town. For those looking for alternative views, the tower also features several full-floor residences offering views expanding in all directions.

Most of all though, the Museum of Modern Art below will have three additional gallery levels within the base of 53W53 on floors 2, 4, and 5. Residents will receive titles to a special benefactor W53 MoMA membership, that comes with several additional benefits and privileges at the museum as well as the potential to host private gatherings in the museums sculpture garden.

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There, in the airspace high above the Museum of Modern Art (the nation’s pre-eminent modern art museum), the view is spectacular. Which is why Nouvel's long-delayed high-rise is finally breaking ground—as the next Central Park area superstructure to scrape the sky. It will join the area's other megatowers (current and future): the One57 condominium (1,005 feet), 432 Park Avenue tower (1,396 feet), the Skinny Scraper at 111 W. 57th Street (1,421 feet), and the Nordstrom Tower (1,775 feet including a spire).

Revised renderings of the 1,050-foot tall midtown MoMa tower reveal spacious panoramic residences by renowned interior architect Thierry W. Despont inside of an elegant tapering tower, with intricately-woven diagonal columns zig-zagging down the sloping glass façade.

Architect Jean Nouvel's 1,050-foot MoMa tower is finally under construction above the Museum of Modern Art.

This unusual and extremely complex diagonal structural system—called a “diagrid”—makes a bold first impression, but required developer Hines to replicate the building in a Sunset Park, Brooklyn warehouse to examine the structural soundness of the skyscraper's slanted columns, tilted windows and tapered top floors. According to The New York Times, the test unit (nicknamed "a playground") is a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom mock version of the MoMa tower’s most challenging area—the 32nd floor.

The prototype’s staggering $500,000 to $1 million construction expense is still chump change compared to the cost of the $1 billion-plus-financed megatower and the ultra luxury condos within (which range from $3 million to $50 million).

Developer Hines, Nouvel, and Despont solved these design hiccups at considerable expense, which, naturally, is built into the condo prices. A special ventilation system was designed to compensate for 11-feet-high (and nearly six-feet-wide) windows that don’t open. Stained parquet floors were rejected in favor of wide oak planks floors with perpendicular borders which best complemented the varied window angles.

Panoramic view with diagonal columns zig-zagging across the 11-foot high windows.

The renderings offer a new glimpse of the MoMa tower's interiors. Units will come equipped with automatic window shades fitted with guide wires (like used on yachts) and calibrated to eliminate gaps at the base of angled windows, according to The Times. Ceiling lights designed to create a halo effect will grace MoMa tower’s kitchens and hallways. Meanwhile air-conditioning will be concealed behind detailed cornices. With challenges met, excavation has begun.

Interior architect Thierry Despont in the test lab, a.k.a. "the playground."

The MoMa tower, located between Fifth and Sixth avenues, is slated to be 82-unofficial stories (likely 72, officially) with 140-plus residential units (which reportedly include six penthouses and 30 additional staff quarters on select floors), totaling 442,000-square-feet of space.

According to Curbed, floorplans show the MoMa tower will offer 32 one-bedroom apartments, 51 two-bedrooms units, 47 three-bedroom units, nine four-bedroom units, and two five-bedroom residences on the 60th and 61st floors measuring more than 7,000 square feet.

Financing issues stalled the project several times. According to The Real Deal, Hines acquired 240,000-square feet of air rights last fall from the neighboring MoMa and St. Thomas Episcopal Church for a whopping $85.3 million to keep the project on track. Also in the deal, the museum acquired three more floors of gallery space (floors two through five) as part of its expansion.

When completed, the view outside the MoMa will be as modernly majestic as the art inside the museum.

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One Central Park may be Sydney’s most ambitious urban village design since the city’s iconic Opera House.

Touted as Australia’s greenest urban village, the eco-friendly, foliage-covered residential complex certainly plays the part well; it houses its own tri-generation plant which supplies electricity, heating, and cooling using "ingenious green transformers" powered by natural gas. But the most obvious features of this skyline curiosity are vertical gardens growing up the skyscraper façades and massive cantilevered mirror panels that reflect light into the building’s lower levels.

With One Central Park, lead collaborators French architect Jean Nouvel and botanist Patrick Blanc converted an abandoned brewery and four city blocks into Sydney’s most ambitious urban village design since the completion of the city’s iconic Opera House in 1973. Nouvel (Paris’ Quai Branly Museum and New York’s Tower Verre/Moma Tower) and Blanc (Miami’s Pérez Art Museum and Paris’ L’Oasis D’Aboukir) are famous for their bold projects.

The towers at One Central Park stand above five floors of retail shopping.

One Central Park is the key part of a 5.8 hectare site in Sydney that boasts 30,000-square meters of open parks, courtyards and terraces, a five-story retail shopping mall, cafes, bars, galleries, entertainment venues, offices, and these two main residential towers which solve the constraints of urban space and harness the natural power of the environment.

The self-sufficient towers feature rooftop gardens, lush green walls, solar panels, smart-metering systems, on-site water recycling and a central thermal tri-generation plant that reduces carbon emissions, minimizes mains water demand, and exports excess water and electricity to nearby neighborhoods. In fact, 93% of the material demolished to build One Central Park has already been recycled as well.

One would expect overgrown plant foliage to infest abandoned buildings, not new structures like One Central Park. Blanc (the founding pioneer of vertical gardens) designed one of the tallest green walls in the world over the building’s north and east façades, utilizing 35 plant species on 21 large panels that span 10,764-square feet. With this unique feature, Nouvel and Blanc built the green-theme into the design literally and figuratively.

Botanist Patrick Blanc, inventor of living green walls, designed One Central Park's façade with 35 species of plants.

“Landscape is architecture,” says Nouvel, principal at Ateliers Jean Nouvel Studio. “So at One Central Park, we have created a kind of continuity between the park and the buildings, so the façades literally extend the park into the sky. By miming what can exist in Australian nature, we are proposing a new form of high-rise living in direct contact with nature.”

A green building usually requires an original, un-recycled imagination, and One Central Park is no different. Nouvel built hydroponic and heliostats control technology into the structure so “vegetation and daylight can become more manageable and can be extended to previously inaccessible places of the building."

One Central Park is the key part of Sydney's reported $2 billion revitalization project. The complex, which replaced an abandoned brewery, resides on a 5.8 hectare site boasts 30,000-square meters of open parks, courtyards and terraces

According to Nouvel, hydroponic irrigation systems allow soilless vertical veils of vegetation to grow in planters and on walls all the way up to the tower tops, resulting in green facades that trap carbon dioxide, emit oxygen, and provide energy-saving shade. Nouvel's studio collaborated with lighting specialist Yann Kersale to create the massive suspended heliostat system of 320 reflectors (extending 42 meters off the east tower), which redirect natural sunlight and inject energy down into lower levels of the building. At night, LEDs transform the tower into a grand lighting installation landmark.

A cantilevered heliostat system of 320 mirrors reflect natural sunlight and generate energy into the building. By night, they rely on colorful LEDs.

One Central Park’s 276-foot western tower accommodates 240 residences, while the 384-foot western tower boasts 383 apartments, including 38 penthouses (marketed as Sky at One Central Park), with private entrances exclusive access to an elevated 328-foot sky garden. The garden, which sits on level 29, features an outdoor kitchen, sculpted timber seating and a plunge pool.

The eastern tower has 383 apartments, including 38 penthouses with private entrances and access to private entrances exclusive access to an elevated 328-foot sky garden.

Architects and designers from Sydney, London, Paris, and Copenhagen united to create this unique One Central Park complex. Nouvel teamed with local firm PW Architects to design the unique structures. According to reports, One Central Park is the centerpiece of a $2 billion masterplan in downtown Sydney by developers Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia. Its interiors were designed by Sydney architect Koichi Takada (east tower) and Smart Design Studio (west tower). The development is adjacent to Broadway on the north end of the Central Park precinct, an area designed by Sir Norman Foster of London-based Foster & Partners.

“At Central Park, we want to give something to the future inhabitants of Sydney by creating a new version of the urban park,” says Nouvel. “Just because you are living in the city, you do not have to lose the advantages of living in the country. For me, vegetation is part of the vocabulary of architecture."

One Central Park architect Jean Nouvel.

There’s no word on which daredevil is in charge of landscaping at the complex. Perhaps trimming the vertical shrubs isn't necessary. After all, the unique towers are self-sufficient, beanstalks or not. Now that we think of it, One Central Park's towers have floral elements... so why not give it the nickname "The Twin Flowers?"

Photos and details courtesy of Dezeen

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