Archinect - News 2024-12-11T16:31:52-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150219578/burger-king-unveils-new-restaurant-designs-to-address-implications-of-covid-19 Burger King unveils new restaurant designs to address implications of COVID-19 Sean Joyner 2020-09-14T14:29:00-04:00 >2020-09-20T23:31:04-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/57/57dba410a8b8d95ee499284acbcfe1a5.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Burger King has unveiled new restaurant designs that are due to better serve customers in a COVID-19 world. With a focus on mobile ordering and curbside pick-up, the new designs embrace a new way of serving visitors by offering drive-in and walk-up order areas, curbside pick-up areas, an enhanced drive-thru experience, exterior dining spaces, and sustainable design elements.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The new design was created by Restaurant Brands International's in-house design team. "The designs we&rsquo;ve created completely integrate restaurant functionality and technology. The restaurant of the tomorrow merges the best functional technology with unique modern design to elevate our&nbsp;<em>Burger King</em>&nbsp;guest experience,&rdquo; said Rapha Abreu, Global Head of Design at Restaurant Brands International in a statement. &ldquo;We designed the interior and exterior spaces like we had a blank sheet of paper, designing without preconceived notions of how a&nbsp;<em>Burger King&nbsp;</em>restaurant should look."</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/141912077/a-global-shift-towards-a-vegan-diet-is-necessary-to-stave-off-the-worst-of-climate-change-says-new-un-report A global shift towards a vegan diet is necessary to stave off the worst of climate change, says new UN report Nicholas Korody 2015-11-25T23:12:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b4/b4e160oa8yancka2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: 'Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.'"<br><br><strong>Related coverage:</strong></p><ul><li><a title="Unchecked climate change will make the Gulf uninhabitable, claims new study" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/139829407/unchecked-climate-change-will-make-the-gulf-uninhabitable-claims-new-study" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unchecked climate change will make the Gulf uninhabitable, claims new study</a></li><li><a title="Major international companies to set targets to switch to renewable energy" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/137353975/major-international-companies-to-set-targets-to-switch-to-renewable-energy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Major international companies to set targets to switch to renewable energy</a></li><li><a title="Architecture of the Anthropocene, Part 1" href="http://archinect.com/features/article/109656462/architecture-of-the-anthropocene-part-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Architecture of the Anthropocene, Part 1</a></li></ul>