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Stefano Boeri
Studio Boeri designed the "Bosco Verticale" (Vertical Forest) and was granted the Highrise Award 2014 last November. It is not just a matter of style or of architectural language. Indeed, it anticipates the paths future architecture is heading to. It's a new kind of skyscraper, where humans and trees co-exist. It's the first example in the world of an urban tower enriching the biodiversity of the city hosting it.
The complex consists of two residential towers including 113 residential units, able to host 800 trees, 5,000 shrubs, accounting for over 100 species.
Stefano Boeri is one of the partners of Studio Boeri. He's professor of Urban Design at Milan Politecnico.
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Boeri's Vertical forest has just achieved a great recognition in the USA. The prestigious Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has awarded it as the Best Tall Building of 2015 (last year the title was assigned to De Rotterdam of Rem Koolhaas). The Prize Giving ceremony took place on November, 12th 2015.
Mr Boeri claimed: "...with Bosco Verticale the idea of the new way of living in the city is being awarded. The two towers of Milan demonstrate the possibility of living among the trees and the green even in the sky of the city; surrounded by extraordinary biodiversity of plants, trees and birds, Milano and its Bosco Verticale are being studied by the whole world as a model of cohabitation with nature, for the city of the future.
(source - http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net)
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