BIOPHILIC design integrates nature into design to enhance our connection to the environment. Some architects are using one of its elements to striking effect: trees.
The Ford Foundation in New York boasts a 12-story-high atrium filled with magnolias, eucalyptus, jacaranda, cryptomeria, ironbark and pear trees. The Winter Garden atrium in lower Manhattan's Brookfield Place is home to 16 40-foot-tall Washingtonia palm trees. Singapore's Jewel Changi Airport features 2,500 trees — natives to Madagascar, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia — in a 6-acre indoor forest with walking trails.
