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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! It's a pleasure and a relief to write the December editorial, the last one, of this horrendous unforgettable year. As our cover explains well, we can kick and chase away this 2020, and welcome a 2021 that will still be very difficult, but at least born under the good auspices of the vaccine. We are happy to end this...

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Italy on Sunday unveiled a floral logo and a slogan for its coronavirus vaccination campaign: “With a flower, Italy comes back to life.” A Milanese architect, Stefano Boeri, and a team of consultants came up with the flower design, which will be used on the temporary pavilions where the vaccine will be dispensed. “This idea of a spring flower helpi...

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Today we would like to discuss a modern Italian architectural innovation, the Bosco Verticale, or the Vertical Forest in Milan, Italy. This form of architecture comes at a time when there is an ever-growing need for greenery in urban landscapes and cities that are more crowded than ever in human history. As a result, many architects, scientists, an...

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l suo Bosco Verticale di Milano ha festeggiato cinque anni entrando nella lista mondiale dei 50 grattacieli più iconici degli ultimi dieci lustri e sono già in programma o in cantiere edifici simili a Parigi, Losanna, Tirana, Nanjing. E ancora, nel deserto di New Cairo, «tre cubi verdi realizzati a temperature estreme è una bella sfida ma assorb...

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UN estimated that every week, 1.5 million people move from urban areas to a city. To give you an idea of the impact this trend has, Milan (Italy) has 1.3 million inhabitants (Istat, 2017). The assumption that follows is that by 2030 there will be 43 megacities in the world. A megacity is a single metropolitan area, although it can refer to two or t...

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L’idea di una città sostenibile, attenta alle esigenze ambientali; un progetto di riforestazione metropolitana pronto a raccogliere la sfida del cambiamento climatico, vera emergenza del nostro tempo. È questa la concezione che sorregge il famoso “Bosco Verticale” dell’architetto e presidente della Triennale di Milano Stefano Boeri, un modello resi...

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019. From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm EST. Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Entrance: Free. Book Now. An evening dedicated to Milan with Stefano Boeri, architect and President of Fondazione La Triennale, in conversation with Noemi Bonazzi and Peter Eisenman, moderated by Matteo Milani. Stefan...

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Architect Stefano Boeri has always been obsessed with trees. The Italian traces his fascination back to a novel he read as a child, "Il Barone Rampante" ("The Baron in the Trees"), in which a young boy climbs up into a world of trees and vows to never to return. "I think trees are individuals," Boeri said in a phone interview. "Each has its own evo...

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