Carlo Ratti Associati have released the design of an office tower in Shenzhen, China whose entire façade will be a vertical hydroponic urban farm. The Jian Mu Tower was designed to fill the last real ...

A long-vacant State Street landmark in Chicago could soon be fostering more than nostalgia. The eight-story former department store at 401 South State Street — a hulking 485,000-square-foot building ...

Vertical farms promise to produce climate-resilient crops devoid of pesticides and fertilizers while reducing reliance on natural resources in contrast to traditional agriculture. Yet with the more ...

Vertical farming, a type of indoor agriculture where crops are grown stacked in layers, has been expanding in fits and starts since the late 1990s. As the technology has improved, more large-scale ...

Vertical farm Oishii, known for its premium strawberries and more recently a high-end tomato, is building out a larger, more sustainable facility that will increase its production capacity by ...

The big, blocky building just north of Interstate 70 looks like all the other big, blocky buildings along a commercial and industrial strip in Aurora. Visitors have to scrub up, put on masks, hair ...

As of Q1 2023, the U.S. office vacancy rate has surged 34.6% since Q4 2019. This increase is largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a shift in how people work. Many businesses have ...

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A new purpose for empty office buildings is emerging: indoor farms. Office-to-farm conversions have taken hold in recent months, according to a BBC report. One floor of a 32-story historic Niels ...