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埃菲尔铁塔或变世界最大“绿树”

大名鼎鼎的埃菲尔铁塔明年可能变身为世界上最大的“绿树”。媒体日前披露了一项被评价为“疯狂”的计划：用60万株植物装饰这座巴黎乃至法国最富盛名的地标性建筑。此项大胆的计划由法国京吉尔集团(Ginger)提出，估计将耗资7200万欧元。这家专门从事环保工程的企业将与合作伙伴联合实施这项浩大的工程。巴黎市政府和法国环境部也将参与其中。根据该集团的设计，从2017年6月开始，埃菲尔铁塔将在4年时间里身披绿装，成为向世人展示法国环保理念的标志。预计，这60万株植物将为铁塔增重378吨。

A French company wants to turn the Eiffel Tower into a heaving, breathing, botanical giant by draping its mass of metal struts and rivets under a mantle made of 600,000 plants.

The plan to transform one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world into a vast environmental curiosity as well is, for now, little more than the dream of an urban planning consultancy that would gain in fame if the dream became reality.

埃菲尔铁塔或变世界最大“绿树”1

The idea, which has not so far been officially endorsed by Paris City Hall or the company that operates the Eiffel Tower, would transform the three-floor edifice of more than 300 metres (yards) into something akin to a very tall, and growing, Christmas tree.

Ginger, the consultancy promoting it, issued a statement on Wednesday to defend a project that it said would symbolise the reconciliation of nature and mankind as the world's population heads for nine billion, seven billion of whom would live in urban areas.