One Central Park vies for ArchDaily building of the year

One Central Park vies for ArchDaily building of the year
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

Two Australian projects are among finalists for 2015 ArchDaily website Building of the Year Awards.

Lune de Sang Sheds by CHROFI and One Central Park in Sydney's Chippendale (pictured above) by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects were each judged worthy of the top five most popular projects in their respective categories by readers of ArchDaily.

Both projects have been regularly featured on architectural websites.

The rural NSW project Lune de Sang Sheds is up against projects from Chile, Spain, and Germany as well as Heatherwick Studio’s Bombay Sapphire Distillery in the industrial architecture category.

In the housing category, One Central Park‘s much-talked-about Heliostat is up against The Iceberg by CEBRA + JDS + SeARCH + Louis Paillard Architects in Denmark and Parkrand by MVRDV in The Netherlands as well as projects from Portugal and Brazil.

In all, five finalists in fourteen categories have advanced to the second round of voting, which closes 4 February 2015.

The building with the most votes will be named ArchDaily’s Building of the Year for 2015.

The 2014 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards was described as a peer-based, crowdsourced, architecture award where the collective intelligence of 60,000 architects filter and recognize the best architecture featured on ArchDaily during the past year.

It has been giving the award since 2009.

It was early 2013 when, in an Australian-first engineering feat, Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia had elevated a 110-tonne steel frame 100 metres in the air, successfully attaching it to the One Central Park apartment block on Sydney’s Broadway.

heliostat1

It is considered the most complex part of the construction process in building Australia’s first residential heliostat, 30 months in the making.

heliostat2

Underneath, 3,000 coloured LED lights have become an eye-catching piece of public art at night, illuminating the residential towers with a light display designed by French lighting artist Yann Kersale.

heliostat4

 

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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