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by markplindsay 2331 days ago
This reminds me a lot of PARKROYAL on Pickering[0], a very cool-looking hotel in Singapore. It's probably much easier to pull off this look in a tropical rainforest climate, though.

[0] https://www.archdaily.com/363164/parkroyal-on-pickering-woha...

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I'm also reminded of the Oasia Downtown hotel in Singapore, which, like Park Royal, is designed by WOHA. It's a fairly recently completed skyscraper, and the plant scaffolding hasn't fully been overgrown yet: https://archello.com/project/oasia-hotel-downtown
London is basically a temperate rain forest.
For majority of the year, you're not wrong. Assuming you can have a forest of concrete.

[EDIT ADD] Yes London does have some parks, though you could look at those as Oxygen watering holes in relation to the local environment.