“By far the worst part about living in a big city is the tradeoff of rarely seeing much nature. It’s also what makes the natural pockets of beauty embedded within cities so breathtaking. One architect is looking to solve that problem. Stefano Boeri runs a firm based in Italy that unveiled plans earlier this year for cities in China practically made out of forests, with greenery flowing out of the different floors of the buildings. He already pulled it off in Milan with the Bosco Verticale — or “vertical forest” — complex completed in 2014. Now the firm’s been tasked with a bigger project: two new forest towers in the Chinese city Nanjing, which will serve as a model for expanding the style to three full cities in China…”
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