BOSCO VERTICALE

Last weekend I went to Milan for a visit whit my family. It was too cold to visit the city without freezing, but we want anyway to the City Life Zone to see the Bosco Verticale Building. The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a complex of two residential skyscrapers designed by Boeri Studio. They have a height of 116 metres (381 ft) and 84 m (276 ft) and within the complex is an 11-storey office building. We like them because despite it is winter we felt his presence full of life, of dry leaves and branches full of sleeping nature...

The distinctive feature of the skyscrapers, both inaugurated in 2014, is the presence of over two thousand tree species, including tall shrubs and trees, distributed on the facades. It is an ambitious project of metropolitan reforestation that aims to increase the biodiversity of plant and animal species in the Lombard capital through vertical greening, reducing urban sprawl and contributing to the mitigation of the microclimate. The Bosco Verticale has received recognition in the architectural community, winning numerous awards. In addition to the International Highrise Award in 2014, it was acknowledged by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as the "most beautiful and innovative skyscraper in the world" in 2015 and as one of the "fifty most iconic skyscrapers in the world" in 2019. The prototype of the Milanese project will be replicated in other cities.

This is a picture from the trip We made in june, the buiding was full of leaves, full of live. Nobody must say tha Milan is not green :-)