Bosco Verticale is a planned 10,000 square meter urban forest, ... An irrigation and filtering system will be installed, that recycles gray water for maintenance of the plants.

Designed by Stefano Boeri, the Bosco Verticale is a towering 27-story structure, currently under construction in Milan, Italy. Once complete, the tower will be home to the world's first vertical ...

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, ...

Bosco Verticale’s planted facade contains approximately 21,000 plants, including about 800 trees. This pioneering approach to facade design meant that a large number of performance criteria had to ...

Construction of the Bosco Verticale in Milan - aka the world's first vertical forest - is well underway and the building is anticipated to open this year, 2013.

The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series looks at Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale, the first "vertical forest". Greenwashing gimmick or much-needed urban ...

Fly over Milan’s Bosco Verticale, a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district, where over 800 trees and 5,000 ...

The project, Bosco Verticale (or Vertical Forest), is the first in a development called BioMilan which will integrate vertical gardens into the exterior structure of some new Milan buildings, such ...

The Bosco Verticale, says Boeri, now hosts the nests of more than 20 species of birds, not to mention countless groups of plants, who he considers the primary tenants of the building. He has a ...

For the Milan skyscrapers Bosco Verticale, "vertical forest" in Italian, it's what's on the outside that matters. The 256-foot and 344-foot towers are covered head to toe in more than 700 trees ...

Dubbed the vertical forest, Stefano Boeri Architetti’s latest project in a Milan suburb should influence tower design in the decades to come, says Ellis Woodman Italy may train more architects per ...