Thursday, 31 May 2007

Skyfarming: Ironic, Impressive, Impossible?


Written by Lisa Chamberlain, posted on Building Design + Construction but sourced from The New Yorker is an inspiring article about developing technologies that may one day transform our cities from a centre of consumption to a heart of production.

The New Yorker: Skyfarming

This may not be a watershed article on construction or structural techinques but raises the question; What do we design for and what is a building's purpose? Should we merely design to meet the brief we are given? How can technologies and ever increasing structural options privide us with a space, so multi-purposed, that it can provide much more than shelter?


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