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Mark In Houston's avatar

Woke politics meets garish architecture in one of America’s most architecturally distinguished cities. Let’s hope this wet dream never becomes reality.

OTOH/IMHO's avatar

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).

Joe Hallfrisch's avatar

I remember this used in Denver. People needed two cars to get to work on time.

Jeffhas's avatar

Thank you! - I was thinking this sounds like a socialist dream; control people’s free movement by way of ‘some need’…

Mark In Houston's avatar

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!

OTOH/IMHO's avatar

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.

Sue Don Nim's avatar

Please stop doing drugs for your own good.

OTOH/IMHO's avatar

And non sequiturs for your own good.

ATM's avatar

Time of food shortages? Where are these food shortages happening if I might ask?

Ben's avatar

Africa like always.

Old Gyrene's avatar

Some of the best soil and weather conditions for growing stuff on the planet, yet there is a food shortage.

I'm thinking there is a human element to the problem.

ATM's avatar

There is no food shortage in Africa. There is food abundance.

Want a simple proof? Where on the planet is population growing when everywhere else it is shrinking (or at least not growing)?

Old Gyrene's avatar

No.

Just plain no.

Sonny Lapilotta's avatar

It’ll never be built. Garish architecture? How about: An architectural gender neutral imagined orgasm?

NanaW's avatar

I don’t think someone like Frank Lloyd Wright, who actually cared about building structures that were in harmony with humanity and the earth, would care for this monstrosity at all.

Why are the woke so terrible at everything?

Wesbury, Brian's avatar

They’re just trying to make the Obama Library fit in.

Fred Richmond's avatar

No hope. It's too ugly and dystopian.

Te Burt's avatar

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.

Frank Nero's avatar

Looks like the Eye of Sauron.

Doug Schmitt's avatar

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.

Sonny Lapilotta's avatar

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.

Doug Schmitt's avatar

:) so dumb. Hundreds of feet up in the chilly windy air of downtown Chicago.

Te Burt's avatar

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.

Letsrock's avatar

Weather = Geoengineering

Night owl's avatar

Glad you mentioned this. This is the next dam to break. The spraying is so in our faces at this point that even normies around me sometimes comment on it.

ATM's avatar

Oh, the tariff costs are being eaten by the other nations corporations who are absorbing the tariffs.

The other increase in prices you see are entirely the result of one thing, and one thing only - the continued printing of "money" from nothing. That money also goes to certain people first, who benefit. Then prices rise and you and I do not benefit, we have reduced purchasing power.

It's why the rich are getting richer and the poor are still poor and he middle class is being destroyed. And you know who loves when all that happens? The very communists who run our nation! They hate the middle class and need it destroyed to usher in their communist utopia.

Douglas's avatar

We need a lesson on isms. Cause I think it looks like fascism walks like fascism and most definitely talks like fascism. But there’s the A one as well so I think we need a lesson.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

Why are they called woke when they never ever waken to reality?

A White Light's avatar

We really need a different word to describe the dangerous idiocy, don't we?

William Wallace's avatar

Perpetual Dreaming!

Al Gonzalez's avatar

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.

E. Grogan's avatar

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.

Michael Srite's avatar

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.

Old Gyrene's avatar

Priorities, Bro.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

That’s not stealing; that’s reparations!

William Wallace's avatar

Looting has ramifications!

Ron Neff's avatar

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.

Letsrock's avatar

The thieves are all up to their eyeballs in taxpayer $$$.

A.M.'s avatar

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.....

Sue Don Nim's avatar

Well, there's a retard up there^ that thinks if they take out half of a highway in Houston we can feed the world, so...

Ben's avatar

I believe he meant the land would be better suited for farming.

He must not be an American since there is plenty of fallow land not being used across America.

Big Ag really must hate this idea of buildings being used to grow food.

Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

“Experts” are nothing if not self important fart sniffers.

Old Gyrene's avatar

"Experts" and "Consultants".

Where would the world be without "Consultants"?

PJ's avatar

Community Greenhouses around the city would solve the problem for fraction of the cost.

YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

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.

PJ's avatar

Yeah, you’re so right…. I’m currently volunteering to help design a community garden … in a rural area … where nearly everyone has access to land but doesn’t use it. Oh wait… they do use it - for junked cars ( just needs a transmission), trash piles ( pile has to get big enough before it’s worth a trip to the dump), barking dogs that are fenced every day of their lives, or the yard is kept as a barren landscape so they don’t have to labor, or so they can see the thieves coming.

It’s gonna be interesting 😆🦋

Mike Baron's avatar

what about the Obama library, James? A masterpiece.

Te Burt's avatar

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!

CorkyAgain's avatar

If ever we needed proof that Vogons are real.

ATM's avatar

Harvest rainwater from clouds? LOL! The proposed stupidity would be within feet of one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth!

these architects are no doubt, at this very minute, harassing ICE officers in MNPL/St. Paul.

Gym+Fritz's avatar

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.

JackStrawWichita's avatar

"Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!" - Sauron

Gwyneth's avatar

One good storm off the lake and it would more than likely go down in history along with the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Libertarian's avatar

Good they don’t call it the Windy City.

Jrod's avatar

Read somewhere once upon a time that the reason they call Chicago "the windy city" is not on account of the weather, but on account of all the wind coming out their politician's mouths.

Thor Odinson's avatar

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"?