Green - and Leafy - Buildings

[Charles Hunter]

Saw this on Facebook (thanks for the link Scenic Jacksonville) https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-milans-bosco-verticale-has-changed-the-way-designers-think-about-sustainable-design

A couple paragraphs from the article, which also has more great photos of the buidlings.

From Architectural Digest
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 Verticale. Translating to "Vertical Forest," the 260- and 360-foot towers, edged by projecting concrete balconies, were covered head-to-toe with a combination of 800 trees and 5,000 shrubs.

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Once completed, the towers, whose plants, nourished by an integrated irrigation system, grew out of imbedded prefabricated containers, became wildly popular, both among residents and across the city. They nested occupants in a green respite, absorbed CO2, minimized heat-island impacts, reduced energy consumption, and hosted a wide variety of plant and animal species. They also helped invigorate (along with new parks and towers by several top architects) an area that was once dominated by unused railroad tracks and decaying industrial buildings.