Italian architecture firm Boeri Studio hopes to merge vegetation and urban architecture, with its Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project. The Italian firm has designed a model that could see the ...

With the increase of urban density and the decrease in the availability of land, the verticalization phenomenon has intensified in cities all over the world. Similar to the vertical growth of ...

Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale, in Milan, is a beacon of biodiversity as much as a residential complex. More than 90 species of plants, trees, and shrubs grow on the facades of its two towers, and, ...

Forget London's monolithic new Shard, all eyes will surely be on the Bosco Verticale when it opens in Milan at the end of this year. The new skyscraper promises to bring a hectare of forest into the ...

The 26th-floor penthouse in Milan’s world-famous Bosco Verticale, a foliage-covered residential complex, is like a treehouse in the sky. The aerie, which offers 360-degree panoramic city views, ...

During a ceremony in Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) declared Italy's Stefano Boeri Architecti's greenery-clad Bosco Verticale the ...

The great thing about the towers of the Bosco Verticale in Milan is that they aren’t just pretty to look at, they’re also actively great for the local environment. They contain as many trees as you ...

In the heart of Milan’s Porta Nuova district stands one of the world’s most recognisable examples of sustainable architecture: Bosco Verticale, or “Vertical Forest”. Designed by Italian architect ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. They look, at first sight, like ancient monuments consumed by nature. But for the designers of the sibling towers of ...

The Bosco Verticale is a system that optimizes, recuperates, and produces energy. Covered in plant life, the building aids in balancing the microclimateand in filtering the dust particles contained in ...

Milan is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the Bosco Verticale project aims to mitigate some of the environmental damage that has been inflicted upon the city by urbanization. The ...