IKEA garden

If you’ve always wanted to grow your own veggies and herbs, but don’t have a yard where you can set up a garden, IKEA has the perfect product for you. The furniture retailer just unveiled its new KRYDDA/VÄXER hydroponic garden, which allows anyone to easily grow fresh produce at home.

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3d printed treats

Not only does 3D printing open new creative doors in just about every industry, it also enables entrepreneurs to combine aspects of seemingly disparate industries into new and exciting businesses. Peter Zaharatos has spent his career working in the field of architecture, and he currently teaches the subject at New York City College of Technology. He’s a talented architectural designer whose skills have served him well in his chosen profession, but not long ago he decided to use those skills for an entirely different purpose. Last month, Zaharatos opened Sugarcube Dessert and Coffee, a gourmet café in Long Island City, New York. In addition to serving coffee, the café offers desserts that are nothing short of works of art.

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McBarge

A floating McDonald’s restaurant may sound like a wonderful fast-food industry concept but you won’t find any Happy Meals at this restaurant.
The McBarge was built in 1986 for an estimated cost of $8 million (£5.6 million) but proved to be a bad investment and has been left empty for the last 30 years in a creek on the west coast of Canada.
Urban explorers have more recently ventured inside the abandoned restaurant to capture what it looks like now, sharing the photos on a Facebook group.

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NYC's food web

Over the past year, Open House New York’s The Final Mile has explored the architecture of New York City’s food system. From the markets of the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center to the food halls of Brooklyn, The Final Mile has explored how the spaces in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have helped shape the city and our experiences of it.

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Japanese Market

Glass walls provide woodland views from inside this structure by Japanese architect Takuya Hosokai, which contains a market and restaurant serving only locally produced food

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chefs 3-print

The detailing is due in part to Natural Machine’s Foodini, a 3-D printer that “manages the difficult and time-consuming parts of food preparation that often discourage people from creating homemade food,” according to its website. As the BBC notes, 3-D printing is helping chefs create customized dishes from foods ranging from mashed potatoes to chocolate. It even has internet capabilities which means users can upload designs from the web and have the designs show up on their plate. Mateo Blanch, who utilizes 3-D printing in his dishes, tells the International Business Times, “It has changed the way I work with food… I am capable of a level of precision that would never have been possible before.”

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more than a box?

Must a grocery store be simply an aesthetically mundane warehouse in which groceries are stocked and sold?

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