Eco Skyscrapers

Eco Skyscrapers

The high rise is going green. It seems hard to believe that a tall, hulking block made from huge amounts of material and consuming huge amounts of energy could ever be anything other than bad for our fragile environment. Yet conventional wisdom is being challenged by architects and scientists who are attempting to foster.Milan’s Bosco Verticale, designed by Stefano Boeri, translates as “vertical forest”. It is a celebrated residential tower which its designers have made to be literally green by covering it with plants. This “greening” of towers has become a recurring architectural trope in recent years, and sometimes it can signal style over substance – in the case.