Sheppard Robson has unveiled the mixed-use Citicape House in London that will have the "largest living wall in Europe" to help improve local air quality.
Citicape House will be wrapped by a facade of 400,000 plants that are hoped to "capture over eight tonnes of carbon and produce six tonnes of oxygen" annually.
The building will be located on the UK capital's Culture Mile, a traffic-heavy area between Farringdon and Moorgate in the City of London.
It has been designed by London studio Sheppard Robson to replace an existing office building on the corner of Holborn Viaduct, and demonstrate how the built environment can address issues such as climate change and air pollution.

The building's green facade will align with the trusses as an external expression of its elaborate superstructure. This is designed by Sheppard Robson in a bid to avoid "greenwashing the building", which will require the demolition of an existing building and an inevitably complex structure to enable it to span railway lines below it.

"We are very conscious to avoid 'greenwash'," Burr told Dezeen. "The facade composition expresses the truss that sits behind it so there's an integrity to the architecture."
"We thought about how our design can positively influence the dense urban fabric of the City," he continued. "How does a building on such a tight site, hemmed in by a busy vehicular thoroughfare on one side and by hard glass and masonry...