RYADH For a few years now, we have been working on greening and shading cities and metropolises located in arid, hyper-arid or desert areas. We believe it is necessary to intervene with technical solutions for urban shading and cooling to support the inhabitants of those parts of the world most affected by the extreme effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures and heat islands. But also because we know that the same solutions we are proposing for cities like Cairo or Riyadh – such as

This Cucumber Magnolia (M. acuminata) is a great example of how trees “prune themselves” as a result of shading, stress, or other factors - sometimes known as Cladoptosis. This tree was originally part of a nursery that existed here before this was turned into a public park. When the nursery closed, some trees (including this one) were left in the ground. As the woods grew up around the tree, its lower branches got shaded out and were dropped by the tree. For some reason, its old branch unions a