URBAN FOREST

Working with Aria Property group, Sydney practice Koichi Takada Architects has designed a mixed-use high-rise in South Brisbane. With 392 apartments over 30 storeys, a two-level roof garden and a public park at ground level, the building (left) – plus its 1000 trees and 20,000 plants – has ambitions to become the world’s greenest residential tower. “Urban Forest is probably the greenest we can design with the current ‘greening’ tools and regulations available to us,” says Takada. koichitakada.com