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 ...

Sustainability, green space, healthy living—these are the watchwords for the cities of the future. And nowhere are these elements better incorporated into urban life than in Porta Nuova, an innovative ...

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 ...

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, ...

This week the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards Jury selected Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy as the "2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide" at the 14th Annual CTBUH International ...

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 ...

Six years ago, Italian architect Stefano Boeri, with Boeri Studio's Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra, completed a two-tower project in Milan’s new Porta Nuova district known as the Bosco ...

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 1 - It is "unacceptable" that Milan's now iconic Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) twin skyscrapers should have been cited as one of the possible inspirations for a mooted Gaza ...

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 ...

The Bosco Verticale mixed-use towers were constructed with a $2.5 billion public-private investment as part of the redevelopment of Milan’s Porta Nuova district. The towers, measuring 260 feet and 367 ...

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 ...