Blog: MISFITS' ARCHITECTURE
"The built environment is always going to have its bread buildings and its cake buildings, its caviar and its junk. Somewhere in the middle, there has to be a “nutritious” architecture that makes us feel good because it is good for us – an architecture that does The Shelter Thing well and that doesn’t cost the earth. This is what we care about."
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The Growing Food Connections Policy Database is a searchable collection of local public policies that explicitly support community food systems. This database provides policymakers, government staff, and others interested in food policy with concrete examples of local public policies that have been adopted to address a range of food systems issues: rural and urban food production, farmland protection, transfer of development rights, food aggregation and distribution infrastructure, local food purchasing and procurement, healthy food access, food policy councils, food policy coordination, food system metrics, tax reductions and exemptions for food infrastructure, and much more.
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The Herald Design Forum 2014, a celebration of creativity and innovation in design, will explore the changes that design will bring to life in its fourth edition in November.
Under the title “Design Spectrum, Expanding the Definition of Design,” the forum, organized by Herald Corp., will discuss the influences of design in various fields, including architecture, product design, fashion and food.
The forum will kick off with talks by celebrated architects Rem Koolhaas and Joon Paik. Koolhaas, professor at Harvard University and curator of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, is one of the most influential figures in contemporary architecture. His recent works include the CCTV headquarters in Beijing and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s new building. He also designed a gallery space in the Samsung Museum of Art and the Museum of Art, Seoul National University.
Peter Callahan, caterer and food stylist, will talk about incorporating design elements to food presentation based on his catering experience to the U.S. President Barack Obama, Martha Stewart, Vera Wang and Tory Burch.
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GreenTowers specializes in urban agricultural design. We create self-contained ecosystems that allow you to grow food at home, at work, and everywhere in between. Our focus is on unconventional and soilless growing techniques, ranging from ornamental aquaponic indoor gardens to hydroponic vertical farming production. Relax and revitalize by surrounding yourself with a healthier and more natural environment.
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led by developer provast and designed by architecture office MVRDV, the structure combines two dissimilar program types, composed as a housing building which arches over an indoor market hall. the facility offers public access for eating, drinking, and shopping, while also accommodating 228 apartments featuring externally facing balconies.
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Organize Kitchen Pantry: ever since the Dust Bowl it seems generations of Americans are keen on hoarding food. The design for such a stockpile comes in a myriad of looks...and the technology to make it more efficient just keep coming.
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In a pilot project for the shores of Singapore, Barcelona-based firm JAPA has designed a network of looping towers floating on the shoreline to house crops for the increasingly land-poor nation.
"What we propose is not just a single tower but it's like a network of towers that will produce agriculture via hydroponics," said Javier Ponce, head architect and founder of Forward Thinking Architecture, the ideas lab for JAPA.
"All the crops will be produced inside the vertical structures that will be placed or located next to the cities and more dense areas.
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