BCV wins Award for Urban Field Farm Stop

29.04.10

BCV Architects was awarded second runner-up for its “Urban Field Farm Stop” in the REDESIGN YOUR FARMERS’ MARKET competition, sponsored by GOOD magazine, The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, CO Architects, The Los Angeles Good Food Network, and AN. The Los Angeles-based competition drew 65 entries from countries as far away as Lithuania. From the Jury: “This entry contemplates an innovative urban distribution system for fresh farm product to urban centers. As a complement to the typical destination market, the Urban Field Farm Stop concept inverts the traditional preconception of “market” and envisions the entire city map as a kind of decentralized farmers market, an Urban Field of fresh farm product integrated directly with the mass transit circulation system of the city. Select bus stops along central bus routes are reinvented as individual Farm Stops within this citywide Urban Field network.”