Vertical Forest Skyscraper, Milan Italy - DJI Inspire 2

[ElectricLife]

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Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy, near Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station. They have a height of 111 metres (364 ft) and 76 metres (249 ft) and will host more than 900 trees (approximately 550 and 350 trees in the first and second towers respectively) on 8,900 square metres (96,000 sq ft) of terraces. Within the complex is also an 11-story office building; its facade does not host plants.
The towers were designed by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra). It also involved input from horticulturalists and botanists.
The building was inaugurated in October 2014

 

[mpaerial]

Interesting...why build a skyscraper to cover it in plants?? Nice video though

 

[ElectricLife]

It won every possible prize...But you have a good point!

 

[niki]

Better environment? A lot of cities doesn't have any green area in them or have very small park spaces. This partially solves the problem with pollution in the air. I would like to see a whole neighbourhood like this. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ElectricLife]

Better environment? A lot of cities doesn't have any green area in them or have very small park spaces. This partially solves the problem with pollution in the air. I would like to see a whole neighbourhood like this. Thanks for sharing!

That would be really cool. More areas would be neat too, as well as more electric cars, hence less pollution

 

[Jingle]

Pretty cool. What happens when trees fully mature though?

 

[ElectricLife]

Pretty cool. What happens when trees fully mature though?

The will take over the building, hopefully...