Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Dragonfly Skyscraper Farm Will Give Pigs the Best Views of Manhattan [Architecture]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/o1FJO8Tg8XE/dragonfly-skyscraper-farm-will-give-pigs-the-best-views-of-manhattan

First they launched the Swine Flu attack at a global scale, and now they are opening their headquarters in New York. This is the Dragonfly Vertical Farm, a skyscraper designed for animals and agricultural production.

Sitting on the southern part of Roosevelt Island—on the East River—the building is based on the shape of a dragonfly's wings. It extends 132 floors 600 meters up in the air, totalling 360,000 square meters.

The Dragonfly Vertical Farm is designed to produce fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, and dairy. It will also include public spaces, so people can visit the animals as they get ready to first take over Manhattan, and then take over Berlin. It will probably also result in the most expensive milk and bacon in the planet, which is probably why it is never going to be built.


Yes, the end is near. [Design Boom]