Green Blade

Green Blade
Green Blade

Video: Green Blade

Video: Green Blade
Video: Green Blade בשידור 2024, March
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The facades of the new 180-meter building will be a "vertical park": plants planted on special terraces will protect its glass curtain walls from overheating. In addition to the external landscaping surrounding each of the 45 floors of the building, each apartment will have a small private garden, as well as a park at the foot of the skyscraper, designed by the landscape bureau Rios Clementi Hale Studios.

Jean Nouvel calls his project a "green blade" and sees in the active use of landscaping not only a path to energetic architecture, but an opportunity to give a building a "local flavor", taking advantage of the fertile California climate and its lush vegetation.

At the same time, thanks to the all-glass walls and the small thickness of the prismatic volume of the tower - only 15 m - sunlight will penetrate into all its rooms, which will make it possible to reduce energy costs. Also, such a narrow profile of the building will allow the active use of natural ventilation. The developer, SunCal, hopes to receive a LEED silver certification for the Nouvelle Tower.

The building itself, reminiscent of the classic building of modernism - the UN headquarters in New York - will belong to the category of luxury housing. It will be erected in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It will have a total of 177 apartments, ranging from two to six per floor. There are no corridors and stairwells between them, as the elevators will serve the apartments directly.

Construction of the SunCal tower will begin in 2009.

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