Siobhan Lyons is a media-studies scholar based in Sydney. Her books include Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay, and Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics.
When our desire for urban nature becomes a performance of mastery Situated in the gentrified, formerly working-class suburb of Chippendale, Sydney, is One Central Park, a skyscraper that features vertical hanging gardens. The building has a J. G. Ballard-esque panache, the architecture enmeshed with the natural world, bringing to mind that author's 'High Rise' and The Drowned World' simultaneously.
