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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><strong>Sydney-based developer Crown Group has unveiled designs for a 63-storey residential tower in downtown Los Angeles.</strong></p><p>The 528 apartment building, located at 1111 South Hill Street, will comprise 52,000sq m of gross floor area as well as 500 square metre of retail.</p><p>If realised, the building, dubbed Sky Trees, would be one of the tallest buildings in Los Angeles, behind the 73-story Wilshire Grand Center and US Bank Tower.</p><p>This will mark developer Crown Group&#x27;s first venture into the US market and fourth major project with Sydney-based architects Koichi Takada.</p><p>Previous projects include Arc, Skye, and Infinity, all located in Sydney. </p><p>Related: <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/worlds-tallest-residential-building-launches-to-market">World’s Tallest Residential Building on Billionaire’s Row Launches to Market</a></p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/73d6787d-4902-4b0f-87bf-7b93a6360bdc.jpg" width="1000"/></picture><div><span style="float:right;opacity:0.8">Image: Koichi Takada Architects</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p></p><p>Koichi Takada highlighted that inspiration for the new skyscraper had been drawn from California’s gigantic redwoods, the “oldest and tallest” trees in the world, as well as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe and her “flying skirt.”</p><p>The ground level will feature a wave-like canopy for pedestrians in an attempt to challenge the car-dependant city to become a more walkable city.</p><p>The architects said the tower would become the “healthiest place you can live in downtown LA” transforming the old existing warehouse district into a healthy and organic neighbourhood.</p><p>“We want to humanize tall buildings, to celebrate the pedestrian activities and consider how people experience it,” Koichi Takada said. </p><p>“We want our tall building designs to be more engaging to the public to contribute to the community by activating and creating a connection with the neighbourhood.”</p><p>The project is one of many planned and under construction in L.A.’s South Park neighbourhood, which until recently, had been low-rise warehouses and commercial buildings. </p><p>If realised, Sky Trees will be flanked by nearly two dozen towers new high-rise developments that have been proposed or completed along the north-south Figueroa Corridor.</p><p>The current designs are currently before the City of Los Angeles after previous designs submitted for a 53-storey tower last year were retracted.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

Sydney-based Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled designs for a 63-storey residential tower in downtown Los Angeles.

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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Bullish Brisbane developer Aria Property Group has lodged its <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/aria-lodges-plans-for-a-13-storey-tower-in-kangaroo-point">second</a> residential development application within a month, in a sign of confidence for the Brisbane apartment market. </p><p>Aria has lodged a proposal for an ambitious 128-apartment mixed-use tower at 66 Hope Street with the Brisbane City Council. </p><p>The developer has tapped architecture firm Koichi Takada to design the tower, which is located on the doorstep of Brisbane’s cultural and performing arts precinct. </p><p>In a <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/rba-flags-cut-to-interest-rates">tentative</a> lending market, the developer has tailored the offering to owner-occupiers, with three- and four-bedroom apartments, an open-air rooftop and “more than ten times” the communal open space requirement. </p><p>Aria development director Michael Hurley said Brisbane had <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/how-brisbanes-high-end-developers-are-navigating-market-headwinds">experienced</a> a flight to quality as the market weakened.</p><p>“If you compete on price you are going to be doing some pretty bad stuff, but if you are focusing on quality, that will allow you to stand out,” Hurley said.</p><p>“Our product speaks for itself, but we do spend a tremendous amount of time making sure that we are exceeding people&#x27;s expectations.”</p><p>A 4-storey podium at street level will house an “activated” gallery space, designed to function as a display for changing art pieces from local museums. </p><p>The site’s double-height entry will blend retail and lobby space as a contribution to the public realm, Hurley said. </p><p>“The arts precinct is embraced through the building’s ground floor podium that will activate public engagement.”</p><p>Related: <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/design-unveiled-for-new-queensland-theatre">Design Unveiled for New Queensland Theatre</a></p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/1f937dbb-0609-425b-9e83-c50957dc4a5d.jpg" width="1200"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">▲Timber ribbons will create “dancing balconies” on the building’s facade. Image: Koichi Takada</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>The 1,342sq m site has a 29m frontage to Hope Street and is within a 300 metre walk of the heritage-listed Queensland cultural precinct. </p><p>LED lights will festoon the timber ribbons along the building’s facade to emphasise its built form at night. </p><p>“Creative lighting is the calling card of all major cities and Brisbane is no different,” the development application reads.</p><p>“The driving concept of the building [is] where art is integrated from the ground lobby, to typical lobbies, to the podium, to the roots rising up the building to the rooftop itself.”</p><p>One level of basement car parking and three levels above the building’s entry will house 172 car parks, while level 5 apartments will have access to private gardens atop the podium. </p><p>Architecture firm Koichi Takada was chosen from a design competition with Elenberg Fraser, DKO and DBI. The entries were presented to the lord mayor and planning chair. </p><p>If approved, it will neighbour Aria’s 216-apartment “<a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/worlds-tallest-man-made-waterfall-moves-ahead-in-brisbane">waterfall</a>” project on Hope Street and join the developer’s two recently-approved <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/aria-lodges-development-application-for-two-12-storey-towers-in-west-end-">residential</a> projects in West End under construction.</p><p>Earlier this month, Aria <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/aria-lodges-plans-for-a-13-storey-tower-in-kangaroo-point">lodged</a> plans for a 13-storey, 127-apartment residential tower in Kangaroo Point.  </p><p>The Hope Street building will aim for a Nathers 6 Star rating.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

Aria Property Group has lodged its second residential development application within a month.

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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><strong>Leading Australian property developer Crown Group has recently announced its latest development &quot;Mastery by Crown Group&quot;.</strong></p><p>Mastery by Crown Group takes Sydney into new territory by combining the visions of three industry leaders: Crown Group chairman and chief executive Iwan Sunito, world-renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and award-winning Sydney architect Koichi Takada.</p><p>The five-building development is the first collaboration of its kind for the harbour city. </p><p>Kengo Kuma is the master behind the eye-catching focal point of the development – an innovative 19-storey tower featuring a striking plant-filled, green exterior designed to emulate a stacked forest. </p><p>The remaining four buildings comprise three buildings designed by Koichi Takada Architects and a building designed by Sydney-based architects Silvester Fuller; adding a unique local perspective to the design.</p><p>Crown Group chairman Iwan Sunito said his vision for Mastery by Crown Group was for it to become a vibrant and diverse community in Sydney’s inner suburbs. </p><p>Located at 48 O’Dea Avenue Waterloo, Mastery by Crown Group will comprise 384 luxury apartments, resort-style residents amenities including an infinity-edge cantilevered rooftop pool, gym and community room and a ground-floor retail precinct comprising a mix of restaurants, cafes and shops.</p><p>Named Urban Taskforce Property Person of the Year 2015, Sunito graduated with Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) and Masters of Construction Management from UNSW and was awarded the UNSW Eric Daniels award for excellence in residential design before becoming a Registered Architect in 1993.</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/062a4a10-da93-4426-ba9b-3353a08df800.jpg" width="1273"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">Mastery by Crown Group will comprise 384 luxury apartments, resort-style residents amenities including an infinity-edge cantilevered rooftop pool, gym and community room and a ground-floor retail precinct comprising a mix of restaurants, cafes and shops.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>Sunito co-founded Crown Group with business partner Paul Sathio in 1996. Crown Group has since established a portfolio of projects under construction and in the pipeline worth $5 billion.</p><p>“With Mastery by Crown Group, we are creating a new urban hub; a unique community where people can meet, connect, learn, relax and play together, enjoying an enriched community life in this growing suburb,” Sunito said.</p><p>“We are so proud to bring Mastery by Crown Group to Sydney,” he added.</p><p>Sunito said it was a &quot;great coup&quot; to have both Kengo Kuma and Koichi Takada collaborating on the project.</p><p>“Kengo Kuma and Koichi Takada each have their own unique style and ethos and are true leaders in their field, renowned for their creativity. I feel the collaboration of the two will lead to something new and unique for Sydney,” Sunito said.</p><p>“We are excited to be able to take the next step in furthering the path of Sydney as it becomes increasingly recognised for its leading architecture,” he said.</p><p>Kengo Kuma founded Kengo Kuma and Associates, Inc. in his home nation Japan in 1990. </p><p>Last year the company made its first foray into Australia designing The Darling Exchange, a six-storey public building in Darling Harbour followed by a 25-storey hotel in Sydney’s Circular Quay. </p><p>Kengo studied at Columbia University in New York City and made last year&#x27;s Dezeen Hot List.</p><p>The “stacked forest” apartment building at the heart of Mastery by Crown Group will be Kengo Kuma and Associates’ first residential project in Australia.</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/875fd9fd-1889-4f5d-9b64-2e969db47453.jpg" width="620"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">The Darling Exchange will be a six–storey circular building enclosed with ribbons of timber which gives a beehive-like appearance.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>“Our intention is to give a warm and a natural atmosphere to the community with unique design strategies,” Kuma said.</p><p>“The upper volume of the tower seamlessly transforms into the lower part of the stepped terraces in order to create an intimacy between the building scale and the pedestrian scale on the street level. </p><p>“Eaves wrapping the façade are covered by sticks which give a warm impression of the wood to the façade.</p><p>“The entire façade becomes a vertical urban forest by having vegetation on each eave.</p><p>“Those strategies will blur and soften the profile of the building, and give a whole new image of the Mastery by Crown Group precinct of the Waterloo,” Kuma added.</p><p>Japan-born, Sydney-based architect Koichi Takada has designed three of the five buildings at Mastery by Crown Group. </p><p>Takada began his career in Tokyo and moved to Sydney in 1997. His firm Koichi Takada Architects has won multiple awards for its residential, retail and hospitality designs.</p><p>“It is my honour to work alongside Kuma sensei, the Japanese master of architecture,” Takada said.</p><p>“It is a dream come true,” Mr Takada said.</p><p>“I drew on an idea of ‘green luxury,’ finding inspiration in nature. Each building is designed with a ‘human touch’ to express its organic and distinct architectural character.</p><p>“Responding to Kengo Kuma’s vision for the tallest of the five buildings, I am excited to design three low-rise buildings that create a dynamic architectural dialogue within the precinct,” Takada added.</p><p>Mastery by Crown Group sits within the City of Sydney’s Green Square redevelopment precinct – 5km from Sydney’s CBD, 3km from UNSW and 7km from Sydney’s Airport.</p><p>With more than 40,000 jobs expected to be created in the Green Square area by 2030, the development will be home to hundreds of new Waterloo residents when completed in 2021.</p><p>“Crown Group’s on-going vision for Waterloo will continue to positively regenerate the area’s former industrial warehouses with an ‘organic’ and ‘healthy’ green neighbourhood, celebrated by their signature resort-style living for residents and a new street culture to benefit the public,” Takada said.</p><p>Crown Group will begin accepting expressions of interest on September 10. </p><p>Apartment sales will begin in November. </p><p>Construction is scheduled for completion in 2021. Click <a href="https://apartments.masterybycrowngroup.com.au/">here</a> for more information or to register your interest please visit crowngroup.com.au</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><hr/></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><strong><em>The Urban Developer</em></strong><strong> is proud to partner with </strong><a href="https://www.crowngroup.com.au/"><strong>Crown Group</strong></a><strong> to deliver this article to you. In doing so, we can continue to publish our free daily news, information, insights and opinion to you, our valued readers.</strong></p></div></div></div></div></div>

  Leading Australian property developer Crown Group has recently announced its latest development Mastery by Crown Group.

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