Inside the edifice, which resembles the monolithic housing blocks seen across China and stands as tall as the London tower that houses Big Ben, the pigs are monitored on high-definition cameras by uniformed technicians in a NASA-like command center. Each floor operates like a self-contained farm for the different stages of a young pig’s life: an area for pregnant pigs, a room for farrowing piglets, spots for nursing and space for fattening the hogs. — The New York Times
A 26-story structure is, of course, the world’s tallest free-standing pig farm, according to the Times. It will be joined by a twin hog-raising center in October. The draconian forms are evocative of the measures required by China’s status as the world’s largest consumer of pork products and gaps in food production that must be hastily accounted for through such construction. (Not to instantiate that Western methods of agricultural production can't be equally heinous and unsavory by their own merits.)
As Orwell wrote, pigs are the cleverest of animals.
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Well... how else am I to get bacon to sprinkle on top of my poutine?
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MVRDV was prescient - would love to see current academic architects doing more work like this.
Another step closer to Mega-City One...
That picture alone is powerful enough to go vegetarian.
I won't eat anything with a face.
Well of course ... after they put all their people in those soul-less south facing towers of hell, now its the animals.
The Charlie Munger school of architecture.
Seems like a good breeding ground for the next pandemic
Wait, is this a laboratory?
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