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.

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.

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

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.

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