http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/chicago-pier-rdesign.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:08 +0000 Designers from around the world unveil future plans for remaking the popular public space.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/a-vertical-farm-in-the-horizon-for-manchester-headlines.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:29:08 +0000 A vertical farm in the city may be a very viable solution for a growing urban population in Manchester.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/multi-tiered-vertical-farm-concept-re-imagines-indias-skyline.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:42:27 +0000 HP Skyline 2020 Competition explores the future design of urban cityscapes. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/vertical-farm-concept-for-nyc-inspired-by-a-dragonfly.html Wed, 13 May 2009 19:44:55 +0000 Vincent Callebaut Architects regularly produce some far reaching conceptual architecture. Their latest proposal is an ecological self-sustaining vertical farm to be located on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island adjacent to New York City. The unique 128 floor, 700m concept design is spread over two oblong towers and suggests building a prototype of an urban farm in which a mixed programme of housing, offices, laboratories and farming spaces are vertically laid out over several floors and cultivated by its inhabitants. The architecture of the design proposes reinventing the vertical building, so associated with the New York skyline of the 19thRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/studiomobles-seawater-powered-vertical-farm.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:02:59 +0000 Italian architectural firm Studiomobile have developed an interesting new vertical farm concept. It ingeniously uses seawater to cool, humidify and irrigate crops in a series of stacked greenhouses. The project is set in Dubai, where a lack of fresh water and farmable soil makes this a promising idea. [via designboom]]]>