Vertical Farm Highrise Wins Competition

all images by Romses Architects via Designboom

Harvest Green: Vertical Farm by Romses Architects wins Competition : TreeHugger: “Romses Architects recently won a competition held by the City of Vancouver to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development, reducing carbon emissions for the future. They did this with a vertical farm high rise design.”

(Via Treehugger.)

So does it make sense to do so? Is it feasible? Can it be a completely closed loop?

I just hope there’s no mildew.

More Resources on Vertical Farms

The Future Has Begun: Vertical farms will take eating local to the next level — but are they safe?
The Vertical Farm Project
Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC (roundup)
Vertical Farm in Dubai Uses Seawater
Adam Stein on Vertical Farms: “Pie in the Sky”
The Future of Farming: Vertical or Horizontal?
Sky Farm Proposed for Downtown Toronto
Mithun Architects’ Vertical Farm for Seattle