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Bosco Verticale
Milan, Italy
Labelled as a 'vertical forest', these two residential towers were built in 2014 in the Isola district of Milan. Each tower houses over 2,000 plants, and the amount of new green land that this created exceeds 7,000 sq m; reducing CO2, smog and noise pollution in the area. Countless botanists and horticulturalists were consulted in the construction of the tower blocks, which create a wonderfully surreal Jack and the Beanstalk-like effect on the approaching civilian.