Ground broken yesterday in Montpellier. Very impressive. But am I the only one sees a striking visual metaphor or two in this architectural vision?
New HQ for CGIAR
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Looks like it’s surrounded by a spider’s web. Why on earth would they want to spend and build up a site like this. Something’s gone wrong . . .
Indeed: The aims of the CGIAR – Climate change (no); Nutrition (partly) Food security (yes). Why on earth insult developing countries by putting the head office in France?
Keep those plants caged! Is that a greenhouse?
There are these winter tomatoes people keep in the shed, where spiders build webs around the clusters, which help preserving them. The web-like structure around the trees in the building could be a metaphor for that: it’s the preservation of biodiversity.