Australia Plans High Rises Over Rainforest

The Queenslander Highrise, an innovation in urban building in rainforests, is being designed in Australia. The lowest apartment would be on the seventh floor, leaving plenty of vertical space below for a nature preserve, according to a story in today's Sunday Mail. Parking would be buried underground.

The vision of an unbroken coastal rainforest, studded with sky scrapers poking out of the top is striking. Besides wildlife habitat, the scheme would protect the population against storms and coastal erosion, since vegetation naturally holds the beach in place and buffers against storm surges.

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