Green Idea: Skyscraper Farm
Yesterday, we covered Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, a non-profit organization that encourages people to transform their yards from grass plots to vegetable gardens. But for those of us living in urban areas, where a yard is an impossibility, the windowsill is all we have to work with.
Recently, New York magazine asked four architects to dream up a design for an empty lot at Canal and Varick Streets in New York City (below). The winning design from Work AC, an apartment-building-come-working-farm, would give urban "locavores" a chance to break ground.
"We thought we'd bring the farm back to the city and stretch it vertically," Work AC co-principal Dan Wood told New York Magazine. "We are interested in urban farming and the notion of trying to make our cities more sustainable by cutting the miles [food travels]," added his wife and business partner Amale Andraos.
What do you think? Is this a smart way to make our cities more sustainable?
Recently, New York magazine asked four architects to dream up a design for an empty lot at Canal and Varick Streets in New York City (below). The winning design from Work AC, an apartment-building-come-working-farm, would give urban "locavores" a chance to break ground.
"We thought we'd bring the farm back to the city and stretch it vertically," Work AC co-principal Dan Wood told New York Magazine. "We are interested in urban farming and the notion of trying to make our cities more sustainable by cutting the miles [food travels]," added his wife and business partner Amale Andraos.
What do you think? Is this a smart way to make our cities more sustainable?
Posted by: Audrey Tempelsman on Apr 18, 08 at 03:00 PM PDT
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