
Retrofitting our Skyscrapers For Food and Power
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.23.08
Design & Architecture
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.23.08
Design & Architecture
Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about all the new glass towers architects are designing in New York these days; they are lovely things, but what will power them or feed their occupants in years to come? Green roofs won't do it, they are too small. Daekwon Park has a great idea, seen in the 2008 Evolo skyscraper competition: a way to reunite the isolated city blocks and insert a multi-layer network of public space, green space and nodes for the city.

