Yesterday, I visited Brooklyn’s Rooftop Farms, one of the best ideas to come to fruition (literally) in recession-era New York. It’s, er, a farm on a rooftop – with a view:
I was so impressed/delighted by this that I turned to the excellent inhabitat.com, a design and architecture blog with a bit of a thing for urban farms. I liked the recent proposal for a “vertical farm” on a bridge over the Thames…
…and the “Plantagon”, a “geodesic globe farm of the future”:
Solving food scarcity was never so aesthetically pleasing!