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Green Scene: The Green Planet

At just four stories high, The Green Planet in City Walk may be less imposing than Dubai’s super-sights, but it gets our nod for its striking cylinder-inside-a-cube exterior, and the thriving rainforest within. The middle of the desert is one of the last places you’d expect to stroll through an Equatorial Rainforest, and yet architect Grout McTavish has achieved the impossible with this cutting-edge structure. The origami-inspired cube houses all the technology required to sustain the living rainforest in the central glass core, which is home to 3,000 species of tropical plants and animals.