The residential pair of buildings called Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest in Czech, is one of the jewels of modern Milanese and international architecture. The buildings are 111 and 76 metres high and their entire façade is covered with more than 900 specially landscaped trees that cover the numerous terraces.

The construction of the buildings was completed in 2014.

Architecture and concept

The project, which was put in charge of architect Stefano Boeri, aimed to rehabilitate the until then not very representative area around Porta Garibaldi station, which after the construction of skyscrapers around Piazza Gae Aulenti became one of the economic centres of Milan.

This project was to include an innovative, low-emission and sustainable residential estate. The Bosco Verticale buildings are almost self-sufficient in energy, using solar panels and filtering the waste water to irrigate the terraces with trees.

Thanks to special dwarf tree species, the vertical forest is virtually maintenance-free, only needing to be pruned about once every 3 years, and the irrigation system is fully automatic.