After Milan, the Italian architectural firm Stefano Boeri is building a vertical forest in Asia, more precisely in the city of Nanjing in China. It is a duo of skyscrapers that brings a touch of forest to the concrete jungle and will offer a green and healthy oasis in the middle of a polluted city. The towers will also have a system for harnessing solar energy.
In the place Nanjing, China along the lines of vertical forests Bosco Verticale in Milan, two skyscrapers are growing, the outer part of which will be completely surrounded with trees and shrubs. The green intervention will contribute to the restoration of the environment - these green areas will produce daily 60 kilograms of oxygen – and added k biodiversity cities.
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Nanjing Tower will be completed in 2018 and they will be the first vertical forests in Asia. They were planned by an architectural bureau Stefano Boeri. Taller will be tall 200 meters, and the lower one is 108. They will count over 1000 trees and around 2500 bushes about 23 different local species. They will be in a higher one offices, museum, school of architecture and club, and in the lower apartments, pool on the terrace and the 247-room Hyatt Hotel. A similar tower is expected to rise soon in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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