The goal of the project was to sell affordable housing to young self-starters who will build a creative community there. (Igor Vermeer Fotographie) That project, dubbed the Trudo Vertical Forest ...

Here are some of the most creative climate innovations currently ... a feat of engineering and treated as a piece of art, the vertical forest is also a surprisingly effective tool for mitigating ...

You build a forest straight up into the sky. That’s the idea behind the Nanjing Vertical Forest, which is scheduled to be fully built by 2018, and will bring thousands of trees and shrubs into ...

Architect Stefano Boeri has always been obsessed with trees. The Italian traces his fascination back to a novel he read as a child, “Il Barone Rampante” (“The Baron in the Trees”), in ...

Its latest will be adorned in thousands of plants and hundreds of trees, which the firm says will be equal to around 1 hectare (approximately 2.5 acres) of forest. The Wonderwoods Vertical Forest ...

The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) in Milan, comprising two plant-clad residential towers, formed the equivalent of three hectares of woodland and undergrowth concentrated in just 3,000 sqm of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Hot on the heels of the world’s first Forest City in China, Stefano Boeri Architetti has announced their winning bid for the first Vertical Forest in the Netherlands. Set to rise in Utrecht ...

The 66-year-old stretched the world’s imagination with his first vertical forest in Milan a decade ago. Utrecht is the latest city to get the green treatment from the celebrated architect ...

Architect Stefano Boeri has always been obsessed with trees. The Italian traces his fascination back to a novel he read as a child, “Il Barone Rampante” (“The Baron in the Trees”), in ...