I hope the architect takes into account the potential extra weight the tower will put on with all those plants growing and gaining weight lol.

As beautiful as they are, it is no answer to the CO2 problem. Governments will claim it gives them licence to keep using fossil fuels when these can only take a tiny amount produced by any country. Also, there is the point of the other pollutants from petrol and diesel which are very toxic to breathe in and they won't be absorbed by the trees. Switch to green energy. That is the only solution.

http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/this-living-building-in-bogota-is-the-worlds-largest-vertical-garden.html

Imagine if an entire city was made of these buildings instead of glass towers.

I think it is a good idea, to help with the air quality, but I can't help but think it would be better if we weren't creating the problem in the first place.

I disagree with this design. Branches can damage glass windows during strong winds, especially on high rises. Broken branches dive down to pedestrians as bullets that can kill instantly.

So, if it produces 60 kg or oxygen a day and of the air we breathe in 20% is oxygen, whilst we consider a person breathes in 13 kg of air per day then this whole building produces enough clean air for 23 people?

WOW what a concept. China needs these all over their cities! It will be interesting to see what happens after these trees grow for a few years!!

I can't help but think that the arguments about CO2 and oxygen are not the main point of the exercise. The walls of plants make people feel good. Lots of plants raise people's mood. More plants lead to fewer antidepressants for city folk.

I think the problem of roots digging into concrete can be solved by covering the porous concrete with a hard and smooth material.

These are so great. I hope that the majority of residential tall buildings eventually move to this practice.

656 feet and only 132 pounds of oxygen. Is that good? How much oxygen would a lawn covering the same area produce?

Uhh...where do the roots go? Oh, THAT's right, into your bedroom wall.

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We have the same project by the same architect in Milan, as the article says. For what I know, it requires a very high maintenance and gardeners use some kind of climbing rope to clean and cure the trees. I think that if you keep on with the maintenance you could avoid the roots damaging the structure of the building. These apartments are f*cking expensive, and maintenance fees are crazy too.

It certainly looks beautiful. I hope it turns out to be as great as it seems...the world could use a lot of these!

6 months from when they are created they will be deserted

I cannot remember my photosynthesis - how many kilos of CO2 does it take to make that 60 kilos of O2? Put another way, how much carbon does the process covert into plant mass. Simply stripping off the carbon atoms would yield 22.5 kilos of carbon a day, but it can't be that simple - some carbon gets used up / discarded, right?

I want to live in a vertical forrest building!

This seems like an awesome idea!

Love plant.. i want go there..