01 April 2018
Bosco Verticale
When we were in Milan at the beginning of our trip, we came over to the Porta Nuova neighborhood. The Bosco Verticale (vertical forest) building is one of the more famous buildings in the new development. There are gardens on the balconies and significant care was given during the design and construction to sustainable design.
The lower picture shows the neighborhood just beyond the towers. We are now back in Milan after about ten days in Turin and Genoa. Our new apartment is next door to the Bosco. It is in a courtyard building and you can see the towers from the courtyard. And you can hear the birds singing. It's pretty incredible.
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Something I forgot to ask - On that building with the trees on the little decks, I'm surprised that the trees grow that well I always thught that trees had extensive, deep root system. And the pictures are wonderful, especially with the narrative.
ReplyDeleteGiven the care that the architects and landscape architects took, I imagine they picked trees with root systems that could handle the limited space. Another building around the corner from the Bosco also has more than a usual amount of trees on its balconies. I guess it's contagious (we better hope that caring about the environment, even in big cities, is contagious).
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