Collaborators: Central Park Architecture

— COLLABORATORSGreat architecture is collaborative. Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia have invited world-leading architects to create a vision that will match the vast potential of this heritage site. WILLIAM SMART, FOUNDER, SMART DESIGN STUDIO

CREATION THROUGH COLLABORATION

To achieve a design as ambitious as Central Park, we have brought together architects, developers, designers, engineers and artists from across the globe to create this unique vision.

LONDON FOSTER+PARTNERS

PROJECTS: CENTRAL PARK MASTERPLAN, DUO EAST & WEST TOWER (INCLUDING DUO, DUO LIMITED EDITION, COMMERCIAL AND HOTEL), THE STEPS CENTRAL PARK

Foster + Partners is Britain’s most distinguished architecture studio. It is responsible for the masterplan at Central Park and for designing an innovative commercial and residential precinct on Broadway.

DUO sits prominently between Broadway and The Brewery Yard and will comprise of a series of premium residences, a hotel and commercial space, all which sit above a retail base. Foster + Partners are focusing on innovative residential indoor / outdoor living spaces and a resort inspired lobby and facilities. Foster + Partners have also joined with Nettletontribe Architects to create Sydney’s most advanced student housing at The Steps Central Park.

The Swiss Re Tower, London

SYDNEY TZANNES ASSOCIATES

PROJECT: THE BREWERY YARD

Alec Tzannes is at the helm of one of Australia’s most awarded design firms, Tzannes Associates, which is transforming the historic Brewery Yard at Central Park.

With approval in place for either commercial or residential use plus ground level hospitality, retail space, plans for The Brewery Yard are still being finalised… but wouldn’t a micro brewery be right at home here? The much-loved chimney stack has already been restored and now serves a 21st century role venting clean energy emissions from the Central Thermal Plant.

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DUO. Artist impression

Photography by Murray Fredericks

SYDNEY TONKIN ZULAIKHA GREER

PROJECT: KENSINGTON STREET

Winner of the National Trust of Australia 2014 Heritage Award, Sydney architect Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) is renowned for sensitive reuse, transformation and integrity. At Central Park TZG is transforming Kensington Street.

Since 1987, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer has emerged as one of Australia’s most inventive architectural firms, transforming historical sites into striking venues that fuse old with new and past with present.

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer has transformed one of Sydney’s hidden laneways – Kensington St – and returned it to the local community, creating a bustling destination for restaurants, cafes, small bars, markets, artists, galleries, innovative retailers, social entrepreneurs and creatives – all in the heart of the city.

One Central Park, East lobby

Photography by Simon Wood

SYDNEY SMART DESIGN STUDIO

PROJECT: CONNOR

Designed by Smart Design Studio, Connor is an elegant and refined apartment complex that forms an intricate balance of location and surroundings. Connor's sculptural form suggests it is suspended from the sky whilst the profile of the building is distinctive and individual.

Connor comprises 178 apartments in a single tower of 12 storeys, designed by Smart Design Studio – the talented firm responsible for the interiors of One Central Park’s West tower. Connor defines the Chippendale edge of Central Park, located on the corner of O’Connor Street and Central Park Avenue between beautiful Chippendale Green and Abercrombie Street.

SYDNEY FJMT

PROJECT: BLOCK 11

Designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), Block 11 introduces a curvilinear and fluid architecture style to Central Park. Located between Wellington and Kensington Street, the apartments revolve around open views of the landscaped parklands within the precinct and surrounding neighbourhood.

Block 11 is a curvaceous residential building which lies alongside Wellington Street and Chippendale Green, bending to make space for two new public gardens. Circa 280 apartments and a public child care centre are planned.

Aluminium vertical fins, Connor. Artist impression

Connor. Artist impression

One Central Park, Sky Bridge

Photography by Murray Fredericks

Central Park PARIS ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL JEAN NOUVEL

The bold 38-storey Torre Agbar has been a curvaceous new landmark for Barcelona since 2005. It signals the city’s advanced technology district.

Sky Garden terrace, One Central Park PROJECT: ONE CENTRAL PARK

Jean Nouvel is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, who has created his first Australian masterpiece – One Central Park – in collaboration with botanical artist Patrick Blanc, lighting artist Yann Kersalé and PTW Architects.

“At Central Park, we’ve given something to the future inhabitants of Sydney by creating a new version of the urban park. Just because you are living in a city, you do not have to lose the advantages of living in the country. For me, vegetation is part of the vocabulary of architecture. Landscape is architecture. So at One Central Park, we have created a kind of continuity between the park and the buildings, so the facades 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.”

One Central Park

The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra conveys the diversity, creativity and openness of the Australian character.

SYDNEY JOHNSON PILTON WALKER RICHARD JOHNSON

The Mark, Central Park Park Lane, Central Park

PROJECTS: PARK LANE, THE MARK Among Australia’s most distinguished architectural practices, Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW) is responsible for many of Australia’s most recognisable landmarks in recent years.

The new National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and the Asian Wing of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney are two of the many public monuments designed by JPW. Co-founder Richard Johnson is held in such high esteem that he has been entrusted with design changes to the Sydney Opera House. In 2008, Johnson was awarded Australia’s highest design honour, the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. JPW is also known for its fine commercial work, including the new Westpac headquarters in Sydney. JPW’s skill at weaving major new buildings into historic sites has won the firm special praise and led to their commission to design three residential buildings – 1, 3, 5 and 8 Park Lane and The Mark – at Central Park.

One Central Park, cantilevered Sky Garden

Photography by Murray Fredericks