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Linea Light Group

The best building in the world illuminated by i-LED spotlights

The innovative “green” building, located in the Porta Nuova Gardens area in Milan, has won the 2014 International Highrise Award and has been declared the most beautiful and innovative skyscraper in the world for 2015 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Inaugurated in October 2014, Bosco Verticale is an example of sustainable residential building and a project of city reforestation that contributes to regenerate the environment and metropolitan biodiversity, thus reducing the negative effects of uncontrolled urban expansion on the surrounding area. The two 110- and 76-m tall residential towers feature 900 trees (each of them is three-, six-, or nine-metre tall) and over 2,000 plants including a wide range of bushes and flowering plants distributed on the facades of the two buildings according to the exposure to sunlight. The buildings, covered in terraced gardens, were designed so as to comply with sustainability criteria while ensuring utmost comfort to dwellers.

Boeri’s project has provided a concrete answer to the requalification needs of one of Milan’s most populated urban areas, and has represented the city during the 2015 Expo Exhibition.
This skyscraper is in fact the first example in Italy, and one of the first in the world, of a tangible integration between nature and man.
The building is developed as a real vertical forest: the peculiar structure hosts a large number of projecting balconies, able to accommodate about one hundred different plant species.
To illuminate the terraces of the private apartments, a real green lung for the city, Linea Light Group has created a specific product: a highly-efficient mini LED spotlight with a 4.000 K neutral light source and a driver integrated in the black embossed casing, positioned in the external flower boxes.
These very compact spotlights illuminate the vertical forest with a delicate spot lighting effect and enhance the profiles of trees and bushes, thus increasing its visual charm and making it such a unique building.

Designed by Studio Boeri, now Stefano Boeri Architetti (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) in partnership with building contractor Manfredi Catella (Hines Italia SGR S.p.A.), Bosco Verticale is able to meet an inborn need of contemporary man: the desire to live in a natural ecosystem without having to renounce to comfort and a lifestyle connecting the story of this place to a modern vision.