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Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Italian architect Stefano Boeri wins MIPIM Awards 2025 for vertical forest in Utrecht
Italian architect Stefano Boeri and his studio have won the MIPIM award in the Best Mix-Use Project category for their Wonderwoods Vertical Forest building in the Netherlands. The award, presented at the annual MIPIM international real estate trade show held in Cannes, recognises the most 'useful, sustainable and visionary projects' in the real estate industry. Located in Utrecht, Wonderwoods Vertical Forest is a 104-metre tower that includes 360 trees and 50,000 plants on its façades, the 'equivalent to the vegetation of a hectare of forest.' The project aims to improve the quality of life in the area, by enhancing biodiversity and absorbing carbon dioxide. 'This is a real urban ecosystem, a haven for the biodiversity of living species', the Stefano Boeri Architetti studio said in a statement. The high-rise, which opened in February, is the first vertical forest in the Netherlands to incorporate both apartments and public spaces, including services and commercial areas. 'The recognition of the MIPIM Award as the best 'Mixed Use' building in the world, has captured the profoundly urban character of Wonderwoods: a multipurpose and highly biodiverse architecture, open to the daily life of the citizens, plants and birds of Utrecht', said architect Francesca Cesa Bianchi during the award ceremony on 13 March. Stefano Boeri is known for his innovate urban forestry designs. One of his most famous projects is the Bosco Verticale – literally the "Vertical Forest" – two residential towers covered in vegetation, built in Milan. Completed in 2014, the creation received worldwide recognition in the architecture community, winning the 2014 International Highrise Award and the 2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Stefano Boeri went on to replicate his design all over the world. In 2021, he opened the Trudo Vertical Forest in the Netherlands, applying for the first time his concept to a social housing complex. The Stefano Boeri Architetti studio also has ongoing projects in China and Dubai. 'I try to promote urban forestation because that's what we need," Boeri told Euronews in 2021. "We have to multiply the number of trees everywhere. And the reasons are very clear. It's a faster, cheaper and more inclusive way to try to take down global warming.'
Euronews
18-03-2025
- Business
- Euronews
Italian architect Stefano Boeri wins award for Dutch vertical forest
Italian architect Stefano Boeri and his studio have won the MIPIM award in the Best Mix-Use Project category for their Wonderwoods Vertical Forest building in the Netherlands. The award, presented at the annual MIPIM international real estate trade show held in Cannes, recognises the most 'useful, sustainable and visionary projects' in the real estate industry. Located in Utrecht, Wonderwoods Vertical Forest is a 104-metre tower that includes 360 trees and 50,000 plants on its façades, the 'equivalent to the vegetation of a hectare of forest.' The project aims to improve the quality of life in the area, by enhancing biodiversity and absorbing carbon dioxide. 'This is a real urban ecosystem, a haven for the biodiversity of living species', the Stefano Boeri Architetti studio said in a statement. The high-rise, which opened in February, is the first vertical forest in the Netherlands to incorporate both apartments and public spaces, including services and commercial areas. 'The recognition of the MIPIM Award as the best 'Mixed Use' building in the world, has captured the profoundly urban character of Wonderwoods: a multipurpose and highly biodiverse architecture, open to the daily life of the citizens, plants and birds of Utrecht', said architect Francesca Cesa Bianchi during the award ceremony on 13 March. Stefano Boeri is known for his innovate urban forestry designs. One of his most famous projects is the Bosco Verticale – literally the "Vertical Forest" – two residential towers covered in vegetation, built in Milan. Completed in 2014, the creation received worldwide recognition in the architecture community, winning the 2014 International Highrise Award and the 2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Stefano Boeri went on to replicate his design all over the world. In 2021, he opened the Trudo Vertical Forest in the Netherlands, applying for the first time his concept to a social housing complex. The Stefano Boeri Architetti studio also has ongoing projects in China and Dubai. 'I try to promote urban forestation because that's what we need," Boeri told Euronews in 2021. "We have to multiply the number of trees everywhere. And the reasons are very clear. It's a faster, cheaper and more inclusive way to try to take down global warming.'
Associated Press
17-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
'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
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 17, 2025-- 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). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: Book Cover - image Paolo Rosselli 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 18 th 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). SOURCE: Stefano Boeri Architetti Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 03/17/2025 01:56 PM/DISC: 03/17/2025 01:56 PM
