Bosco Verticale in Milan by Boeri Studio.

Sustainability or green architecture still seems as a new trend or fashion in architecture and it's very easy to insert a little green on a facade of new building or inside. But, sustainability needs to be considered in a long-reaching vision with radical design parameters. Edwin Heathcote, is architecture critic of Financial Times, writes about 'fake green architecture', produced serially.

[.....] That is the question that plagues all these green towers. Will they really ever look like they do on the billboards? The question is important because what this outbreak of green means is that architects and developers are hiding ugly, ill-considered buildings behind curtains of foliage and if the green doesn’t grow, all we’re left with is the dumb, naked towers, blank and expressionless with the fig leaf of a few, well, fig leaves for cover.....Continue Reading

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