Woke politics meets garish architecture in one of America’s most architecturally distinguished cities. Let’s hope this wet dream never becomes reality.
Being in Houston, Mark, you should appreciate that we could literally feed the world if half of the 26 lanes on I-10, the worlds largest highway, were converted to farmland through the use of Odd-even rationing (also called odd-even road space rationing or license plate rationing) Examples: Mexico City (Hoy No Circula): Since 1989, peak hours ban based on plate parity. Delhi (2016/2019): Temporary smog measures. Santiago, Chile: Permanent since 1996. Yellowstone: Entrance rationing (odd plates odd days).
Yeah. I don’t feel like tangly with an illogical mind, so I won’t point out that disrupting/eliminating parts of our transportation system does not improve food distribution. And does the commenter understand that the agricultural cost of growing food in the US means shipping it around the world results in massive financial losses?
26 lanes on the Katy Freeway (I-10 West)??? It’s a lotta lanes of concrete - but including the HOV/Toll lanes it’s 14 lanes at widest.
I have no idea how odd-even road rationing leads to being able to feed half the world. There is no shortage of farm land in Texas - even if I-10 were 46 lanes wide!
From Perplexity:I-10 (Katy Freeway) in Houston reaches its widest at 26 lanes total near Beltway 8/Gessner Road west of downtown:12 main freeway lanes (6 each direction)6 HOV/HOT managed lanes (mid-freeway)8 frontage/access roads." The point is, that at a time of food shortages and sharply increasing prices, this is a much simpler way of expanding ag acreage rather than erecting high-rise absurdities- and the land has already been graded. To John: I am not talking about exporting it, either.
That's hysterical! Just what they need. An entire building that looks like a household dumpster next to pristine (oh, surely, it will be advertised that way - "grown above the smog and contamination") veggies.
Clown world, bubble thinking. And maybe Chicago has a few things to work out before rational folks consider investing heavily in downtown. Not least of which is the fact that most all folks everywhere don’t want the hassle of working in downtowns anymore.
I don't see that this solves the winter-weather-problem. It snows. It's cold - I mean, drop-dead- in-a-heartbeat cold (I live in S. GA so that kind of cold is rare - and we just had upper teens for a week!). And I've not heard anyone say whether it's cheaper than the grocery - which, in case anyone noticed, the prices are NOT going down at WalMart, the largest purchaser of food in the country. They aren't eating the tariff costs.
Can you imagine living on a floor BELOW 3 floors of hydroponic lettuce?
Ive been to Soldier Field in the Winter.. I don’t care HOW they propose this, it will never happen. The costs (and the concept) are untenable and downright ridiculous.
Yes food deserts exist because of horrible political decisions. Like in Baltimore when they damaged a CVS during riots. Large corporations will cut their continual losses and leave so you end up with food deserts when supermarkets close and medicine deserts because pharmacies also close.
Some folks have to trade their food snaps for cash to buy other things they need. A twelve-pack of Corona and a pack of Marlboros will run you about $40 in Chicago. Per day.
In theory yes; the problem is when certain communities don't have respect for property or labor, which is why they wind up living in food deserts in the first place.
Don’t know whether the promo-lit is a bucket or a barrel of BS; but I feel embarrassed for the architect.
On the other hand, the roof-top garden on the building (a few blocks from the White House), where my daughter works, is harvested once a week during growing season and provides her with a lot of free vegetables, especially greens.
As long as it is stupid rich people putting their own money at risk, I have zero problem. Where the problem will probably come from is that these stupid people think taxpayers need to subsidize this lunacy. Food deserts are a man made problem where the people causing the problem are also the ones upset at the results of their own thievery. Try suggesting to their lib pols that the reason for food deserts are an over abundance of thieves in the ghetto and that if people would not steal they would have all kinds of stores opening up but......the truth hurts and we cannot have hurt feelings in the ghetto. That would be ray cist.
Have you seen that thing? I've seen it described as a prison, a dumpster, and of course Mr. Kunstler featured it on his "ugliest architecture known to man" posting. Whoever designed this thing has some serious issues!
Well, it would be too easy to just grow the crops on a plat of land. Much more sensible to build a building, import the dirt, import the water, etc. etc. PG Barnum must be wondering just how gullible we have become.....
So they are growing lettuce in windows? Is this hygienic?
I can imagine a lot of roadblocks to this idea. In the end they can just print out the produce to make it look good bc I can't visualize successful veggie farming.
Woke politics meets garish architecture in one of America’s most architecturally distinguished cities. Let’s hope this wet dream never becomes reality.
Being in Houston, Mark, you should appreciate that we could literally feed the world if half of the 26 lanes on I-10, the worlds largest highway, were converted to farmland through the use of Odd-even rationing (also called odd-even road space rationing or license plate rationing) Examples: Mexico City (Hoy No Circula): Since 1989, peak hours ban based on plate parity. Delhi (2016/2019): Temporary smog measures. Santiago, Chile: Permanent since 1996. Yellowstone: Entrance rationing (odd plates odd days).
I remember this used in Denver. People needed two cars to get to work on time.
Thank you! - I was thinking this sounds like a socialist dream; control people’s free movement by way of ‘some need’…
Yeah. I don’t feel like tangly with an illogical mind, so I won’t point out that disrupting/eliminating parts of our transportation system does not improve food distribution. And does the commenter understand that the agricultural cost of growing food in the US means shipping it around the world results in massive financial losses?
26 lanes on the Katy Freeway (I-10 West)??? It’s a lotta lanes of concrete - but including the HOV/Toll lanes it’s 14 lanes at widest.
I have no idea how odd-even road rationing leads to being able to feed half the world. There is no shortage of farm land in Texas - even if I-10 were 46 lanes wide!
From Perplexity:I-10 (Katy Freeway) in Houston reaches its widest at 26 lanes total near Beltway 8/Gessner Road west of downtown:12 main freeway lanes (6 each direction)6 HOV/HOT managed lanes (mid-freeway)8 frontage/access roads." The point is, that at a time of food shortages and sharply increasing prices, this is a much simpler way of expanding ag acreage rather than erecting high-rise absurdities- and the land has already been graded. To John: I am not talking about exporting it, either.
It’ll never be built. Garish architecture? How about: An architectural gender neutral imagined orgasm?
They’re just trying to make the Obama Library fit in.
No hope. It's too ugly and dystopian.
That's hysterical! Just what they need. An entire building that looks like a household dumpster next to pristine (oh, surely, it will be advertised that way - "grown above the smog and contamination") veggies.
Clown world, bubble thinking. And maybe Chicago has a few things to work out before rational folks consider investing heavily in downtown. Not least of which is the fact that most all folks everywhere don’t want the hassle of working in downtowns anymore.
I don't see that this solves the winter-weather-problem. It snows. It's cold - I mean, drop-dead- in-a-heartbeat cold (I live in S. GA so that kind of cold is rare - and we just had upper teens for a week!). And I've not heard anyone say whether it's cheaper than the grocery - which, in case anyone noticed, the prices are NOT going down at WalMart, the largest purchaser of food in the country. They aren't eating the tariff costs.
Weather = Geoengineering
Can you imagine living on a floor BELOW 3 floors of hydroponic lettuce?
Ive been to Soldier Field in the Winter.. I don’t care HOW they propose this, it will never happen. The costs (and the concept) are untenable and downright ridiculous.
:) so dumb. Hundreds of feet up in the chilly windy air of downtown Chicago.
Looks like the Eye of Sauron.
Indeed
Why are they called woke when they never ever waken to reality?
Yes food deserts exist because of horrible political decisions. Like in Baltimore when they damaged a CVS during riots. Large corporations will cut their continual losses and leave so you end up with food deserts when supermarkets close and medicine deserts because pharmacies also close.
In ghettos/poverty-stricken areas, there is a ton of shoplifters stealing from these stores so the stores pack up and leave. Hence, food deserts.
Some folks have to trade their food snaps for cash to buy other things they need. A twelve-pack of Corona and a pack of Marlboros will run you about $40 in Chicago. Per day.
That’s not stealing; that’s reparations!
Community Greenhouses around the city would solve the problem for fraction of the cost.
In theory yes; the problem is when certain communities don't have respect for property or labor, which is why they wind up living in food deserts in the first place.
Don’t know whether the promo-lit is a bucket or a barrel of BS; but I feel embarrassed for the architect.
On the other hand, the roof-top garden on the building (a few blocks from the White House), where my daughter works, is harvested once a week during growing season and provides her with a lot of free vegetables, especially greens.
As long as it is stupid rich people putting their own money at risk, I have zero problem. Where the problem will probably come from is that these stupid people think taxpayers need to subsidize this lunacy. Food deserts are a man made problem where the people causing the problem are also the ones upset at the results of their own thievery. Try suggesting to their lib pols that the reason for food deserts are an over abundance of thieves in the ghetto and that if people would not steal they would have all kinds of stores opening up but......the truth hurts and we cannot have hurt feelings in the ghetto. That would be ray cist.
The thieves are all up to their eyeballs in taxpayer $$$.
“Experts” are nothing if not self important fart sniffers.
what about the Obama library, James? A masterpiece.
Have you seen that thing? I've seen it described as a prison, a dumpster, and of course Mr. Kunstler featured it on his "ugliest architecture known to man" posting. Whoever designed this thing has some serious issues!
If ever we needed proof that Vogons are real.
Well, it would be too easy to just grow the crops on a plat of land. Much more sensible to build a building, import the dirt, import the water, etc. etc. PG Barnum must be wondering just how gullible we have become.....
😬🤢🤮
🥰🥰🥰 STUNNING Beauty.
Just kidding.
So they are growing lettuce in windows? Is this hygienic?
I can imagine a lot of roadblocks to this idea. In the end they can just print out the produce to make it look good bc I can't visualize successful veggie farming.
Somebody already said this, but my first thought was "just need the Eye of Sauron" at the top. Or would that really be the "Eye of Obama"?
"Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!" - Sauron