Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world's tallest buildings represent humanity's remarkable capacity to overcome architectural and engineering challenges, ...

In a world of high population growth, it’s increasingly difficult to find adequate housing as green space is diminishing throughout most urban areas. But when Cairo began developing a new ...

Milanese architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri is the father of the concept of Vertical Forests, or high-rises covered with the leaves of thousands of plants and trees of different species, the ...

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has a penchant for designing living, breathing buildings. It began in Milan with the Bosco Verticale (Italian for “Vertical Forest”), two looming skyscrapers covered in ...

China has pollution problems, and one Italian architect could have some answers. The Chinese city of Nanjing is getting a Vertical Forest, a set of two buildings stylised with around 1,100 trees and a ...

Carlo Ratti Associati have released the design of an office tower in Shenzhen, China whose entire façade will be a vertical hydroponic urban farm. The Jian Mu Tower was designed to fill the last real ...

Plans to build a pair of vertical forest buildings in China have been announced. The living buildings are set to be built in Nanjing and will possibly house more than 1,000 trees and more than 2,000 ...