Ever since R. Buckminster Fuller popularized the design in the mid-20th century, there’s been something captivating about the geodesic dome. While the structure typically makes architecture lovers salivate, now it’s conquering the heart of another type of urbanist: the city farmer. A new dome-based prototype promises an affordable method of rooftop aquaculture for apartment and commercial buildings—as the website calls it, getting “fish from the sky.”

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Iwamoto Scott Architecture with proces2, Jellyfish House, 2005–6

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See SFMOMA staff conserving Ant Farm’s “Convention City”!

Another SFMOMA staff cat! This kitty is named Gertrude, after (you guessed it) Gertrude Stein.

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#LOLcats meet architecture = YES, PLEASE.

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(We made our own. If you feel like making one, photo reply with it, for the love of all things pure.)

Did the dome ultimately succeed or fail? In our new Bucky Fuller exhibition, this question is left for the viewer to decide.

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OPEN SPACE » Eight Grey Ladies and One French Fantasy

I am drawn to this work because of the way the buildings seem not so much like places to live, but alive themselves, part of an ecosystem, embedded among growing things…

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razorbladesandaspirin:

2010 on Flickr.

What I like best about the schematic design for the transformation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is that it prods us to think about how buildings function, not merely how they look. In other words, that the experience of architecture counts for more than images on a page or on a screen.

Read more: Proposal for SFMOMA expansion on the right track