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Urban centers from Sydney to Singapore to here, Milan, are sprouting green-fringed skyscrapers that amount to what their architects call “vertical forests”—with hundreds of trees and thousands of plants on roofs, patios, and balconies filtering air pollution for residents and absorbing some climate-warming carbon dioxide. This two-tower complex, designed by Stefano Boeri and completed in 2014, was the first such effort. Other builders are taking less visible approaches to cut urban environmental impacts, including a planned one-thousand-foot-tall skyscraper in Tokyo to be built, by 2041, almost entirely of wood instead of concrete or steel. Milan, Italy.

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Urban centers from Sydney to Singapore to here, Milan, are sprouting green-fringed skyscrapers that amount to what their architects call “vertical forests”—with hundreds of trees and thousands of plants on roofs, patios, and balconies filtering air pollution for residents and absorbing some climate-warming carbon dioxide. This two-tower complex, designed by Stefano Boeri and completed in 2014, was the first such effort. Other builders are taking less visible approaches to cut urban environmental impacts, including a planned one-thousand-foot-tall skyscraper in Tokyo to be built, by 2041, almost entirely of wood instead of concrete or steel. Milan, Italy.

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