China to Get Asia’s First Vertical Forest to Help Battle Pollution

Italian architect Stefano Boeri is the brain behind the new Nanjing Towers, a concept already in place in Italy.

(Photo Courtesy: Stefano Boeri)

China, which features among the world’s most polluted countries, will now get a breath of fresh air – literally.

Italian architect Stefano Boeri is the brain behind the new Nanjing Towers which will produce 60 kg of oxygen every single day.

The towers which will look like a vertical forest will comprise of 3,000 plants, of which 1,000 will be trees and nearly 2,500 shrubs of 23 local species.

(Photo Courtesy: Stefano Boeri)

The two towers will stand at heights of 656 feet and 354 feet.

(Photo Courtesy: Stefano Boeri)

The taller of the two will house offices, a museum, a terrace club and a green architecture school while the smaller one will be a Hyatt hotel with a rooftop pool and 247 rooms.

(Photo Courtesy: Stefano Boeri)

The towers are set to open in 2018 and Boeri has already experimented with such towers in Milan, Italy called Bosco Verticale.