Urban Farming around the World

Urban Farming around the World Bangkok A Thai gardener works on an organic rooftop herb and vegetable garden atop a high-rise building in Lak Si District Tokyo Tomatoes grow under fluorescent lights at Pasona O2, an underground farming facility designed to promote interest in alternative-farming technology for city dwellers Arakawa, Japan Local farmers in this part of the Japanese capital produce heirloom daikon radishes to preserve traditional daikon stock, some of which date back to the Edo period (1603 to 1868) Charlestown, Mass. A member of the Food Project harvests vegetables on an urban-farm plot in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. The organization harvests produce and distributes it to the local farmer's market and to hunger-relief agencies in the greater Boston area New York City Plants grow at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center exhibition "P.F.1 (Public Farm One)" in the Queens borough of New York City, an installation celebrating the theme of urban farming. The entire installation, which also features a chicken coop and a vegetable-juicing station, is solar-powered Brooklyn, N.Y. An urban beekeeping couple look over a colony of Italian honeybees on the roof of their building London Beekeeper John Chapple tends to a beehive on an urban rooftop garden in Hackney San Francisco Maya Donelson tends to some of the plants on the roof of the Glide Memorial Church. She is the creator of the church's rooftop growing program Oakland, Calif. A worker at City Slicker Farms carries supplies through the organization's Center Street Farm. City Slicker Farms makes thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables available on a sliding scale to people in West Oakland, where 60% of the residents live below the poverty line and there is not a single grocery store in its 8-sq.-mi. district. The nonprofit organization builds its gardens on vacant lots and in the backyards of area homes Oakland, Calif. Freshly harvested squash lies at City Slicker Farms' Center Street Farm Source

24 Rooms in just 344 sqft

Gary Chang, an architect, designed his 344 square foot apartment in Hong Kong to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. The future seems to be modular homes like this, a solution to space problems!

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16 Thin Buildings

Want to construct a building, but don't have much room? No problem. Like tight, confined, air crushing places? Perfect. Tired of having too much personal space? Fantastic. Wish your home would blow over in a 10 mile an hour wind? Who doesn't? Here are 16 very thin buildings.

 































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Clingstone Mansion in Rhode Island

This 103-years-old mansion in Rhode Island is built on a small, rocky island far away from any nosy neighbors. Just like this house, built close to Oslofjord Island, Norway, it offers total privacy.
Clingstone mansion was built in 1905, for a cost of roughly $36,000, by J.S. Lovering Wharton, a distant cousin of 79-year-old Henry Wood, the present owner of the house. He and his ex-wife bought it in 1961, for $3,600 and managed to bring it back to life after it had been abandoned for two decades.

Mr. Wood and his family found an ingenious way of preserving this 23-room architectural wonder: the Clingstone work weekend. Every year, around Memorial Day, the Wood family and up to 70 friends gather at Clingstone to clean the mansion and fix any of its problems. Practically, any volunteer workers are welcome.

In winter time the boats and floating dock are stored at the nearby Jamestown Boatyard, in exchange for a week’s stay at Clingstone, during the summer.

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