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Sweden Building Major Urban Greenhouse for Vertical Gardens

By 2050, 80% of the world’s population will live in cities.

The 100,000 residents of Linköping, Sweden will soon be able to buy fresh fruits and vegetables grown in a 54 meter high greenhouse in the center of the city. The Stockholm development firm Plantagon began work this month on the project which is expected to be completed in a year and a half.

(via SmartPlanet)

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Tagged with Vertical Farm, vertical gardening, sustainability, sweden,

Posted at 9:40 AM 21 February 2012

Vertical Farm at Chicago Airport: Simple and Cool! →

agritecture:

I just stumbled upon this great post about a new Vertical Farm project at Chicago airport. Check out the images and notice the varieties of foods that can be grown on these small food production towers.

Set in a seemingly unused nook of the G Terminal, a mezzanine space has been transformed into a high-tech urban garden. I see a lot of projects like this one – usually they have a DIY vibe that is quite inspiring (hey, even I could do that!) This urban garden however looked like it came out of a ride at Disney.

www.urbangardensweb.com

SO COOL!

Edible flowers and ready to eat lettuce. Yummy!

What looks like the most comfortable chairs in the airport are set up around the installation with tables to create a park-like setting. Between the view of the runways and the “sunny” urban garden I now know where I’ll be killing time for the next delayed flight.

www.urbangardensweb.com

DIY experimental Vertical Farming projects in airports…a creative way of increasing awareness of BIA and providing food to airport food distributors.