Stefano-Boeri

Luciano Pia’s 25 Verde finished in Turin in 2012, two years before Stefano Boeri cut the ribbon on Bosco Verticale on 10 October 2014—which makes the phrase Italian vertical forests a plural that Milan has spent a decade pretending is a singular. The story usually told runs in a straight line from Boeri Studio’s Porta Nuova twin towers to a global typology now imitated from Nanjing to Eindhoven. The story actually built on the ground includes a five-storey courtyard block at Via Chiabrera 25 in Turin’s San Salvario district, 80 steel columns shaped like tree trunks, and 200 living trees that were already irrigated, pruned and inhabited while the cranes were still climbing the De Castillia and Confalonieri shafts in Milan. ...

The Triennale Milano presidents named since the 1998 reconstitution of the Fondazione — Augusto Morello, Davide Rampello, Claudio De Albertis, Clarice Pecori Giraldi (interim), Stefano Boeri and Vincenzo Trione, the last installed on 4 June 2026 — form a complete answer to the institutional question Italy’s design world has been asking for a quarter-century: who, in any given decade, gets to decide what the Palazzo dell’Arte is for. Before 1998 the question had no single answer, because the institution was governed edition by edition through commissioners rather than by a continuous presidency; after 1998 the chair becomes the most consequential single seat in Italian design politics, and the lineage of six names since 2000 reads as a sequence of sharply different institutional postures rather than a smooth continuity. This piece walks that lineage in order, starting from the 1923 founding in Monza and ending with the press framing of Trione’s appointment as the resolution of a Milan–Rome tug-of-war between the Comune di Milano and the Ministry of Culture. ...

Stefano Boeri’s Rome work has, in eighteen months, turned from a one-off Colosseum-perimeter commission into an 8,000-square-metre rooftop garden on an ATAC tram depot the city had left empty since 2006 — and the gesture grounds the Milanese Vertical Forest vocabulary, formerly reserved for new towers, into the city’s nineteenth-century industrial fabric. The Stefano Boeri Rome catalogue is small but precisely split: Stefano Boeri Architetti is converting the 16,000 sqm Deposito delle Vittorie at Piazza Bainsizza in the Prati-Della Vittoria district, while sister practice Stefano Boeri Interiors has just finished the southern-ambulatory restoration of the Colosseum for the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo. Two projects, two practices, two centuries of fabric — and one designer, Stefano Boeri, translating a Milan signature into a Roman idiom. ...