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Bosco Verticale
Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) · 2014
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ArchitectBoeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra)
Year2014
LocationMilan, Italy
Coordinates45.4867° N, 9.1913° E
TypeArchitecture · Housing, Landscape · Urban Nature
StatusWorth Visiting
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A pair of Milan residential towers by Boeri Studio whose terraced balconies carry roughly 800 trees and some 15,000 plants — the prototype “vertical forest” that turned a high-rise façade into living woodland.
Completed in 2014 in Milan’s Porta Nuova–Isola district, Bosco Verticale (“Vertical Forest”) is a pair of residential towers of 26 and 18 storeys (about 110 and 75 metres) designed by Boeri Studio — Stefano Boeri with Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra. Across their staggered concrete balconies they support around 800 trees, thousands of shrubs and some 15,000 perennials, the equivalent of roughly a hectare of forest stacked vertically.
The planting is structural to the concept rather than decoration: the foliage shades the apartments in summer, filters dust and noise, absorbs CO₂ and shelters birds and insects, turning the building envelope into a working microclimate. Conceived as “a home for trees that also houses humans and birds,” it won the International Highrise Award (2014) and the CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide (2015), and has since been echoed in projects from Nanjing to Eindhoven.
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