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Hello dear reader,

My son asked me to help him with his paper. I already hear you thinking...another mother too soft for this world, cheating on , helping her children with their homework.
He asked to write something on Greg Lynn. To be honenst I never heard of him. But this man is a genius. Pioneer in using digital technology for architectural design. According to Forbes magazine this man is one of the most influential living architects. In search of his recent projects I came across this interesting design, CURBSIDE PAVILION

DRIVE UP, DRIVE AWAY

As its name indicates, the Curbside service—which is currently available in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York/New Jersey, with the Glendale Galleria inaugurating a presence in Southern California—is about convenient pickup from real-world retailers. (The company has deals with big-box stores including Best Buy and Target, along with mall operators such as GGP, which owns the Glendale Galleria, and Westfield.) You shop in an app on your phone. In as little as 40 minutes, you can pull your car up outside a store or mall and get your stuff handed to you. You don't even need to leave your vehicle.

Curbside competes with same-day delivery services such as Google Shopping Express, and is designed for a world in which stopping by a nearby store for anything from diapers to a flat-screen TV might be more convenient than waiting at home for a courier—as long as you don't need to find parking, wait in line at checkout, or, you know, actually shop. It also gives retailers with major footprints in the physical world an opportunity to sell to people who are increasingly doing their shopping on smartphones.


http://www.fastcompany.com/3049675/tech-forecast/from-app-to-architecture-how-curbside-designed-and-built-its-pickup-pod/8