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selkiegirl — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:39:54 -0000

Watch the movie , "Silent Running".

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AnarchoRationalist — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:26:25 -0000

Build it, just freaking build it!

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Anon — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:17:07 -0000

why would they do that tho, when they can make another attraction in NYC? this thing is beautiful and promises to be functional. Sure, it''ll cost a lot, but if it inspires people to support the project, they will. Nowadays, architecture is a lot more flash than function. Actually, a lot of things are that way.

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Great_kalesh — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:30:35 -0000

Nice..and easy to imagine that it;s a light green leave or capital of tree's

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Mymellowtears — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:21:40 -0000

they don't need one of these things in new york where most of the state is agriculture...put it elsewhere otherwise good idea

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Ivan Malagurski — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:30:57 -0000

Wow! Looks great, probably not so practical....but nice to see people designing along these lines, combining living space with a space to grow food just makes sense...
Ivan

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SmilingAhab — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:58:25 -0000

I like the idea - a building that produces food that fits in the city. that's the end of what I like about this though. 90% of the cost of this building would go to making the building pretty and avant-garde. Make it ugly, design it on bare industrial principles, and it will work brutally efficiently and stretch every penny. It can still be built with environmentally sound principles without looking like some billionaire's hangout. As it stands now... I am an advocate of sound green engineering, not greenwashing; I would be down on the street protesting if ground were broken for this.

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Sarah — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:14:47 -0000

For those who are saying there is an issue with the stability, clearly you have not seen or researched anything from Dubai. Have you seen the size of these newest and tallest sky scraper that just recently opened?

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solar panels for sale — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:49:41 -0000

I don't know about it's ability to stand, but the design is beautiful. Nice to see something that goes away from the traditional box

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Maddy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:50:47 -0000

This is beautiful! I don't think it would be welcome in New York, but I like this design a lot better than ones I've seen before. I don't one of these is going to be built any time soon, mostly because of how much it would cost. However, I think it's a fabulous idea. This site has more info: http://www.verticalfarm.com/

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FreeGravity — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:50:38 -0000

I am very amused and inspired by this building. It has represented the dragonfly as a creature of extremely refined evolution into the perfect assembly of features form and color.

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Oldspeak — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:56:28 -0000

Although a building like this may never be constructed exactly as it's shown above, the idea of such a concept is fantastic.

The World could benefit from more forward thinking Architects like this. The 'greening' in the literal sense of cities is an admirable endeavour and could perhaps reconnect us with the planet from which we take so much a give so little.

I for one would love to see more buildings like this enter the mainstream - how good would it be to see the Government or a large multinational company take the lead (as they seem to have al the money) and build something amazing!

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Robin — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:45:51 -0000

Regardless of where, when or if this structure is "realized", I think it would be a helpful source of funding to use a portion of the tax credits (from the city/county/state it's built) purchased by companies that over-pollute.

That being said, I personally think the design is beautiful. If they can safely construct such a building, I look forward to the future of urban scenery.

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Chad — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:47:26 -0000

I am always baffled by the concept of "vertical farms". No amount of construction is going to increase the amount of sunlight hitting the ground, any light entering the sides of the building simply result in that much land around the vertical farm being shaded and rentered useless for agriculture. And of course, the verticle farm can't be near other tall buildings for vertical farms, or they would shade each other. So where could we put them? The suburbs? That's hardly sustainable. Perhaps a few areas on the coasts. Even then, there is no way that the food production would offset the enormous costs.

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Anonymous — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:36:47 -0000

"Sadly, the new era being ushered in with the end of the "Cheap Oil" era will no longer require huge bodied physically strong, high calorie demanding people, and will favor slight build, high mental activity, fast little vegans! The American West was won by a particular breed and size of human we no longer need in this computer controlled, well planned, hydraulically assisted electrically driven solar, wind, wave, hydro, tidal and geothermally powered world! Small folk take less sustenance, and maintenance, require less space, and do well on veggies and fish or eggs - no beef needed, just aquaculture and some good fish recipes. I see survival of the smallest becoming an issue in an over-sized American population, and as we speak, this confrontation is showing up in the size of airline seats. Large, heavy battleship size cars are an encumbrance to smaller folk, who can hardly see over the dashboard in some cases, and I expect imports from China to reflect the difference in physical size, North American to Asian. Vertical farms are a way to survival, but do not favor larger bodied Americans. They become Shangralai for the smaller folk, once thought valueless in the rough and rugged America of yesteryear."

you have little person syndrome. we can all survive on roughly the same amount of nutrients.

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anon — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:51:50 -0000

We MUST build this now with an immediate stimulus package. There should be a lawsuit by environmentalists if we do not build this immediately. And Geithner and Bernanke should stress the urgency to pass a new stimulus package. The design is intriguing with great moral potential. This is only Fed printed money involved. So just do it.

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Fish Tank Aquariums — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:17:03 -0000

This a very artistic drawing. Love to see it happen.

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Fred Smilek — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:25:42 -0000

Beautiful prospective building, but I don't think we'll be seeing anything like it on the New York skyline anytime soon.

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Veiko — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:54:50 -0000

biomimicry at it's best, abeautiful design. But like the title said - a dream.

But vertical farms will have a place in the future so let your imaginations flow!

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Citizens for a smarter world — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:00:29 -0000

criticism is what keeps dogshit ideas from being realized. If this is a truly good idea, as in what the majority want, then it will happen. The people who go on here ranting about how this should definitely be built without looking at actual numbers or any downsides are morons.

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Ashley — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:10:09 -0000

I think what we are missing is the beauty. I think it's wonderful. Yes a little over the top. But I'd rather live in a city were all the buildings have some life to it like this one rather then what we have now. I mean come on you wouldn't love to live in a city that looks like something out of a fiction novel? It's ideas like this that changes us. And it's the negative criticism that makes them realize that a bit of them actually would love to see the building come true. They just don't like positive thinking anymore.

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Wolfie Rankin — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:16:25 -0000

It looks beautiful, but the soloution to all the environmental problems is to lower the population, not pack the world so full of people that we need high rise farming for goodness sake!

why can't anybody see that?

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Thomas — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:03:28 -0000

why not build a huge pyramid.... the safest and most space efficient way to build buildings is by tapering at the top. I don't see wind or solar integrated systems in (design flaws) this building and believe it is not forward thinking enough for my taste.

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Jack — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:56:48 -0000

"it's safe, obviously or they wouldn't build it. they're engineers they know what they're doing."

They're not engineers, they're designers. I would doubt that much if any structural analysis has been performed on this building design, The point is moot however since it will never be built. Why anyone would consider putting fields in skyscrapers is beyond me; particularly in the States where there are such vast amounts of arable land. What annoys me about this sort of thing is that there are plenty of well-thought out environmentally friendly, sustainable ideas within concept projects like this. It would be far more worthwhile if the designers devoted their time into putting these ideas into practice by retrofitting existing buildings and consulting with projects already in development. These grandiose green skycrapers are a nice thought, but the time and money could be far better spent by developing something a little more realistic.

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Daivro — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:35:20 -0000

This is undoubtably one of the worst things I've ever seen next to any Zaha Hadid project. I go to speak at environmental and construction seminars and am sorry to say the general public and the modern architectural environment is amuck with no sense of taste or aesthetic. Good general idea for a college project, but come on. As a company, don't let embarrassements like this leave the concepting department.