In Switzerland the new vertical forest with the scent of cedar

    It will be the first building in the world with evergreen trees and will be called the Tour de Cedres, or the tower of the cedars. After the vertical forest in Milan, the challenge of Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA) continues to improve urban quality and increase biodiversity directly in the city.



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    It will be the first building in the world of evergreen trees and will be called la Cedres Tour, or the tower of the cedars. After the vertical forest in Milan continues the challenge of Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA) to improve the urban quality and increase the biodiversity directly in the city.



    This time it will be the turn of the sky of Chavannes-Près-Renens, in the urban area of Lausanne, in Switzerland host a new one green and organic tower able to absorb Co2 all year round and produce oxygen.

    117 meters high, the forest will have 100 trees of four cedar species, 6 thousand shrubs and 18 thousand perennials, hanging and ground cover.

    “With La Torre di Cedri we will have the opportunity to create a sober building and at the same time of great importance in the Lausanne landscape. An architecture capable, among other things, of grafting a significant biodiversity of plant species in the heart of an important European city. The Torre dei Cedri, also thanks to its shapes and changing colors of cedars and other plants over the seasons, it may become a landmark in the landscape of Lake Geneva. I am happy for this extraordinary opportunity that will make Lausanne a city at the forefront of the planetary challenge to implement urban quality and biodiversity of species ", he says. Stefano Boeri.

    In Switzerland the new vertical forest with the scent of cedar

    In Switzerland the new vertical forest with the scent of cedar

    In Switzerland the new vertical forest with the scent of cedar

    In Switzerland the new vertical forest with the scent of cedar

    The Tower will be built starting since 2017 from the Swiss manufacturer Bernard Nicod in collaboration with the Buro Happold Engineering studio, the green part will be taken care of by the agronomist Laura Gatti.


    Thirtysix the floors intended for private residences but also offices, a gym and a panoramic restaurant for the tower it will have 80% of evergreen trees.


    Cedar trees, considered among the most majestic in the world, are able to live up to 2500 years and able to adapt to extreme climatic conditions.

    Looking at these images, try to imagine yourself on one of those balconies, at dawn on a Swiss morning with the crisp air and the sun rising over Geneva lake. Close your eyes and let yourself be intoxicated by perfume cedar, you will feel like you are far from the chaos and immersed in a enchanted forest.

    Dominella Trunfio

    Photo credit: Stefano Boeri Architects

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