I want to be an ‘agritect’

Henry Gordon-Smith
Aug 31, 2018 · 6 min read
This empty Safeway rooftop inspired me to become an ‘agritect’

It all started with a rooftop…

I can’t think of a better place to begin from than at the beginning. Seven years ago, I remember staring across West Broadway in Vancouver (Canada) at an empty rooftop above a Safeway grocery store. I couldn’t help but wonder how a greenhouse on the supermarket’s rooftop would look like and function. What benefits could a rooftop farm provide? What crops and how much…

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