While agriculture seems to be trendier than ever before, the US is still losing 2 acres of farmland to development every minute. Some estimate that by 2050 we’ll have only .6 acres of farmland per person, even though our current diets require 2.6 acres. SWA is an advocate for the integration and inclusion of food-producing… Read more »

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Opportunities abound for engineering encounters between guests and their food in the landscape – a breakfast orangerie where fruit is freshly plucked for juice, courtyard gardens planted in orchards of nuts and fruits, herbal lawns at the spa, a poolside planted with date palms. Many hotels are integrating local and on-site food production in a… Read more »

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The 2008 SWA Fellowship project urban agriculture – Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes – has been published in a collection of essays entitled ‘On Farming’. The volume of essays, curated by Charles Waldheim and Fritz Haeg, address ways that agriculture and architecture intesect across a spectrum from purely speculative to documenting built projects. Published by… Read more »

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Piercing the sky at 2,717 feet tall, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in the world, reaching upwards of a half a mile into the clouds. Designed by Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (now of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architects), tall buildings are an engineering feat of wonder as people collaborate… Read more »

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John Wong

Groundscapes for tall buildings cannot be after thoughts, secondary to the design of the tower itself. Planning the uses of the groundscape should be considered in the earliest stages of design so that the way the building is situated on the site doesn’t create undesirable environments due to high winds, harsh sun, or unbearable noise… Read more »

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I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Welton, a writer for the Huffington Post, about the Burj Khalifa and the ground plane design by SWA Group. Here is an excerpt from his article: “When the Burj Khalifa opened a little more than a year ago, international attention focused, laser-like and rightly so, on this neo-Emerald… Read more »

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