Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s ‘vertical urban forest’ design has been named the winner in a competition to design Crown Group’s new tower in Sydney. Kuma, who designed the 2020 Olympic Stadium Tokyo and the V&A museum in Dundee, Scotland, worked in partnership with Australian architecture firm Koichi Takada Architects on the design of the tower, which […]
"We want to humanise tall buildings, to celebrate the pedestrian level and consider how people experience it.” In AR, Koichi Takada discusses the importance of connecting tall buildings with the surrounding screetscape, and their groundbreaking design for Sydney's Infinity building.
Designs for the building by Koichi Takada Architects reveal an abundance of cylindrical forms, shaping the grand foyer and encasing the building in a vertical ‘veil’ rising over 60 metres high.