Pixel, designed by studio 505 for Grocon, is the first carbon neutral office building in Australia and has achieved a perfect score of 100 in Australia’s Green Building Council rating system, the highest score ever achieved. Located on the former Carlton Brewery site, the building is an ambitious and distinctive addition to the key urban area which is undergoing development. Pixel consummately fulfils the brief to provide a 6 Star Greenstar Carbon Neutral development office for Grocon’s development team and sales offices, a display suite area and a green roof top viewing area, for the duration of the development’s construction and sales phase. Grocon intends to turn the Carlton Brewery site into a vibrant, mixed use precinct including retail, residential and commercial spaces. Pixel’s outstanding eco-credentials will inform the rest of the development – for Grocon, Pixel is the prototype of the “office of the future.” It is an exciting, forward thinking structure, which upholds standards that are set to become increasingly necessary as we respond to the need to limit our carbon footprint and increasingly focus on energy efficiency. The building coherently weaves together a series of integrated environmental systems to form an unprecedented whole. According to Green Building Council Chief executive Romilly Madew, “The Pixel Building, having achieved the maximum Green Star points ever awarded under Green Star, could arguably be said to be Australia’s greenest building and is quite possibly the first building on its kind in the world. This building will redefine the way buildings are built in the future.”
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