The award, which was established in 2003 thanks to the joint effort of Frankfurt’s Architecture Museum (DAM), the city of Frankfurt and DekaBank, looks at all buildings that are at least 100 metres high. The parameters for the award include sustainability, design, quality of spaces and integration within the urban setting. The award is given every two years, and for this year’s editions, over 800 skyscrapers were examined on all continents. The international and multidisciplinary jury defined the Vertical Forest as an “expression of man’s need for contact with nature; a radical and courageous idea for tomorrow's cities and certainly provides a model for the development of high population density areas in other European countries.” With construction completed in June 2013, the Vertical Forest, designed by Italy’s Stefano Boeri and built by Hines Italia at Porta Nuova in Milan, is a complex consisting of two residential towers, 80 and 112 metres high, with 113 flats in a variety of shapes and sizes, each having access to its own balcony or terrace, able to hold 800 trees between 3 and 9 metres high, 11,000 perennials and creepers, 5,000 bushes: equal to 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth. As this project is cutting-edge and features strong criteria of sustainability and environmental impact, as well as design and quality, the designers opted for the air conditioning systems of the entire complex to be supplied by Sabiana, with about a thousand fan coils and flues. Italy’s crowning glories choose Sabiana.

The award, which was established in 2003 thanks to the joint effort of Frankfurt’s Architecture Museum (DAM), the city of Frankfurt and DekaBank, looks at all buildings that are at least 100 metres high. The parameters for the award include sustainability, design, quality of spaces and integration within the urban setting. The award is given every two years, and for this year’s editions, over 800 skyscrapers were examined on all continents.

The international and multidisciplinary jury defined the Vertical Forest as an “expression of man’s need for contact with nature; a radical and courageous idea for tomorrow's cities and certainly provides a model for the development of high population density areas in other European countries.”

With construction completed in June 2013, the Vertical Forest, designed by Italy’s Stefano Boeri and built by Hines Italia at Porta Nuova in Milan, is a complex consisting of two residential towers, 80 and 112 metres high, with 113 flats in a variety of shapes and sizes, each having access to its own balcony or terrace, able to hold 800 trees between 3 and 9 metres high, 11,000 perennials and creepers, 5,000 bushes: equal to 20,000 m² of forest and undergrowth. 

As this project is cutting-edge and features strong criteria of sustainability and environmental impact, as well as design and quality, the designers opted for the air conditioning systems of the entire complex to be supplied by Sabiana, with about a thousand fan coils and flues.

Italy’s crowning glories choose Sabiana.