Utrecht, Netherlands, will be the latest epicenter of award-winning Italian architect Stefano Boeri’s vertical forest tower block — a project that will house over 10,000 plants and trees in addition ...

Toronto has long been serious about its urban canopy. The Ontario city is already home to around 10 million trees, which cover around 26% of the city. The current mayor, John Tory, wants to grow that ...

Few designers have done as much to popularize the modern trend of covering buildings in greenery as Stefano Boeri. Since his Bosco Verticale met with critical acclaim, the Italian architect's firm has ...

How do you combat the ills of poor air quality and pollution in a massive city of over eight million people, where there's hardly room to plant new trees? You build a forest straight up into the sky.

Stefano Boeri, the Italian architect behind Utrecht's living forest, has been awarded the European Lung Foundation (ELF) Award for his commitment to improving air quality in urban environments. The 66 ...

Stefano Boeri has designed and built vertical forests across the globe, but his latest project, slated for Eindhoven in The Netherlands, will be unlike anything that has been done before. That’s ...

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 which a young ...

Residents at a Chinese housing complex who looked forward to living in a verdant “vertical forest” found themselves in a veritable hell – with mosquitoes swarming their eco-paradise, according to a ...

How do you combat the ills of poor air quality and pollution in a massive city of over eight million people, where there’s hardly room to plant new trees? You build a forest straight up into the sky.

Home to the ancient pyramids, Egypt is no stranger to architectural innovation. So it is no surprise that it is set to become the first African nation to host a “vertical forest.” Italian architect ...