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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.
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