✖️ Stop calling this nature (It’s real estate)

We’ve learned to put trees on towers and call it green.

But that’s not green architecture.

👉 Real green architecture is not about planting trees on top of buildings.

It’s about recognizing them, and planting them in the ground.

Because they already build the architecture.

🌳 They shape space

🌿 They regulate climate

🪺 They host biodiversity

💡 They carry meaning

🫁 They absorb carbon

This post compares five urban climates — Tropical. Temperate. Mediterranean. Alpine. Arid.

Each with three mature tree species, illustrated in hyper-realistic street sections.

These trees don’t sit on rooftops.

They stand on their own — rooted, symbolic, powerful.

Maybe it’s time to stop decorating cities with greenery...

And start designing them around the living architectures we’ve ignored for too long.

📘 For those interested in the full reflection — and what green design should really mean —

I’ve just published a new book:

Urban Nature Is Not a Decoration