Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs.
Named the Tirana Vertical Forest, the tower with a glass facade punctuated with fragrant planted balconies will be one of Stefano Boeri Architetti's signature vertical forest towers.
Vertical forests are buildings that are planted with trees, shrubs and flowers to increase the green surface area in cities and improve local air quality. Stefano Boeri Architetti specialise in these green facades, and has designed towers in cities such as Milan, Utrecht and Nanjing.
The Tirana Veritical Forest will be planted with Mediterranean flowers and herbs such as rosemary
Careful attention has been paid to the kind of plants that will grow in the balconies and terraces of the Tirana Vertical Forest. "Tirana is a Mediterranean capital, which is why we have chosen different essences typical of this particular ecosystem for the first Albanian Vertical Forest," said landscape architect Laura Gatti.
"Shrubs characterised by a very vivid green colour and brightly coloured flowers in yellow and violet," will be planted along the building, as well scented plants and herbs such as myrtle and rosemary.

The facade of the apartment block will be planted with 3,200 shrubs and bushes, as well 145 trees. Stefano Boeri Architetti claims this will create 550 square metres of green surface for Tirana.
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