Is this "growing" trend just for show?

LOOK AT almost any skyscraper that’s been proposed in the last decade or so, and you might notice a budding trend.

They all have trees on them – and it all seemed to start with the controversial high-rises in Milan - Bosco Verticale.

Now, green-covered towers aren’t just meant to stand out like giant chia pets across drab glass and concrete skylines. Vertical forests like this aim to improve our cities by cutting CO2, providing shade, attracting wildlife and even improving our mental health.

But when you take off the rose-coloured glasses, just how green are these green skyscrapers? How is vegetation even maintained so high above the ground? And if it’s such a no-brainer why doesn’t every new building look like this?

It’s time to dig up the truth under these forests in the sky.

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