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“BOSCO VERTICALE Morphology of a Vertical Forest”: The Book Dedicated to the First 10 Years of the Famous Architecture of Bosco Verticale Now Available Also in US

original Book Cover - image Paolo Rosselli

Book Cover - image Paolo Rosselli

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The famous architecture Bosco Verticale in Milan, designed by the architect Stefano Boeri with Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra (Boeri Studio), has turned 10. Ten years of awards, recognitions, studies and work becoming today symbol of the city of Milan, model of green architecture worldwide and a real pop icon (star of films, television series, quizzes, jewellery, fashion, advertising and even songs).

To celebrate this anniversary, the Stefano Boeri Architetti studio together with the publisher Rizzoli have realized the book “BOSCO VERTICALE Morphology of a Vertical Forest” that traces the history of the project and analyses all those aspects that make it unique in the world with his two towers that are respectively 80 and 112 metres high, housing a total of 800 trees, providing an amount of vegetation equivalent to 30,000 sqm of woodland and undergrowth, concentrated on 3,000 sqm of urban surface. The book starts from the initial impossible challenge to the creation of the Porta Nuova district in Milan. It analyses all those aspects that make it unique thanks to extraordinary contributions like Beatriz Colomina, Paul Hawken, Matilda van den Bosch and James Wines together with an unpublished collection of photographs by Iwan Baan.

From 18th March 2025 the book will be available also in US bookstores. It will be presented by the architects Stefano Boeri and Francesca Cesa Bianchi in New York on Tuesday 18th March 2025 at 6PM at the Rizzoli Bookstore (1133 Broadway).

Ten years after the Bosco Verticale another great result has been achieved by Stefano Boeri Architetti: the “Wonderwoods Vertical Forest”, designed by the practice and built by G&S&, in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, has just won the MIPIM Awards 2025 in the Best Mixed-Use Project category in Cannes (the MIPIM Award is the international prize that celebrates the most useful, sustainable and visionary projects in the sector that seek to improve the prospects of the built environment, in line with ESG objectives).

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