by Nicola | Aug 25, 2012
London’s wholesale food markets are of such venerable antiquity that New Spitalfields, a fruit and vegetable market that “started life in the thirteenth century in a field next to St Mary Spittel on the edge of the Square Mile,” can be casually... by Nicola | Aug 12, 2012
IMAGE: Bees on the roof of the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Photo courtesy the Waldorf Astoria, via American Public Media’s Marketplace. A beehive is the urban roof accessory du jour, even more popular than its eco-friendly cousins, solar panels or greenery. New... by Nicola | Aug 8, 2012
Underneath the pubs, shops, houses, and office buildings of Nottingham lie more than five hundred man-made caves, carved into the city’s soft sandstone bedrock over a thousand years, and now largely abandoned and forgotten. IMAGE: Geoff Manaugh, Ellis and Mark... by Nicola | Aug 7, 2012
IMAGE: Soil samples (the darker ones are carbon-stained), via. In the United States, soil protection is typically discussed in terms of erosion. Through a model law disseminated during the 1930s Dust Bowl, states were encouraged to create soil conservation districts... by Nicola | Jul 30, 2012
At the invitation of architect Carlo Ratti, director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, I was just in Berlin to lead a workshop on “Foodscape Mapping” at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. IMAGE: Talking about chewing gum mapping. Photo by Geoff Manaugh. I pulled... by Nicola | Jul 17, 2012
What do you get if you cross Alan Turing with the London Olympics? IMAGE: The Universal Tea Machine, Smout Allen and You+Pea with Iain Borden. According to British architects Smout Allen, the answer is a very variable cup of tea. Their Universal Tea Machine, designed...