Crystal Gardens in Melbourne, Australia

May 21, 2011 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

The Crystal Gardens designed by CK Designworks is located in Melbourne, Australia.  Australian architecture firm CK Designworks has designed an expressive 35-storey residential and commercial mixed use building for Melbourne’s CBD that will contain landscaped community gardens on every sixth floor – equivalent to approximately double the area of the site – with trees up to 10m tall.

Project architect and partner of CK Designworks, Robert Caulfield said the 35 storey building, to be known as Crystal Gardens was on a tiny 360 sq m block (about half the size of an average Melbourne house block) but would still have enormous park areas set aside for the residents.

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