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 ...

Italy's Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed plans to add a little greenery to Dubai, in the form of its latest Vertical Forest. The project will consist of two skyscrapers covered in thousands of ...

Stefano Boeri received several awards for his original Vertical Forest, Milan's greenery-covered Bosco Verticale, and the Italian architect has since conceived similar buildings for Switzerland, China ...

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 ...

How the team behind Milan’s Bosco Verticale used over 11,000 plants to improve air quality and increase housing How the team behind Milan’s Bosco Verticale used over 11,000 plants to improve air ...

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.

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Worldwide, cities produce about 70% of the CO 2 present in the atmosphere, while forests and woods are able to absorb 40% of it. Increasing wooded areas within and around ...

Who on Earth decides to plant a forest on the side of skyscrapers? Architects, that’s who. Two bold designers working on opposite ends of the planet are actively designing farms, gardens and forests ...

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.