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WONDERWOODS
STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI WINS THE MIPIM AWARDS 2025 WITH THE VERTICAL FOREST OF THE“ WONDERWOODS” PROJECT CREATED IN UTRECHT
The“ Wonderwoods Vertical Forest”, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti and built by the developer G & S & in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, won the MIPIM Award 2025 in the Best Mixed-Use Project category in Cannes.
For Studio Stefano Boeri Architetti, the award was collected at the ceremony in Cannes by architect Stefano Boeri and architect Francesca Cesa Bianchi, partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti, who declared:“ Wonderwoods Vertical Forest hosts different functions- commercial areas, services, residences of various types and sizes, offices, ateliers, green areas and spaces for sports and cultural activities- both public and private, intended for a heterogeneous user base. Furthermore, on the seventh floor, a public square and a pedestrian street connect the tower to the MVSA building. Among its green and treelined facades, our vertical forest in Utrecht hosts a real city. The recognition of the MIPIM Award as the best“ Mixed Use” building in the world, has captured the profoundly urban character of Wonderwoods: a multipurpose and highly biodiverse architecture, open to the daily life of the citizens, plants and birds of Utrecht”.
The MIPIM Award is the international prize that celebrates the most useful, sustainable and visionary projects in the sector that seek to improve the prospects of the built environment, in line with ESG objectives. The 2025 edition of the award, created in 1991 by MIPIM( the world’ s largest event dedicated to
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