Design update Including news of a winning vertical, tree-clad design by Italian practice Stefano Boeri Architetti, the recreation of an RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show garden at Keele University, and plans to recreate a 17th-century physic garden at

Wonderwoods, a 90m-high building clad in trees and shrubs, by Italian architects Stefano Boeri Architetti, was the winning design in a competition to redevelop part of the Dutch city of Utrecht. This vertical forest will be planted up with some 360 trees and more than 9,000 shrubs. It will cover a mixed-use building that will accommodate the Vertical Forest Hub, a research centre on worldwide, vertical-forest projects that will be open to the public. stefanoboeriarchitetti.net