Vandaag in de New York Times een artikel over de Nederlandse architectuur en het plan voor de varkenswolkenkrabbers.

NEW HAVEN ?? For a small country, the Netherlands packs a wallop on the architectural scene worldwide. And while the paterfamilias of Dutch design, Rem Koolhaas, may already be as familiar as a Prada handbag in the United States, other Dutch firms are gaining prominence here through high-profile commissions and exhibitions.

In June the architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos of UN Studio in Rotterdam unveiled their design for the renovation and expansion of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. At an exhibition on view through Oct. 25, the Yale School of Architecture introduces the work of another Rotterdam firm, MVRDV.

One of the firm's most controversial proposals, on view at Yale in another video presentation, is Pig City. Ham is big business in the Netherlands and there are now as many pigs as people (about 15 million). MVRDV imagines that with no restraints pork production could ultimately occupy as much as 80 percent of the country. So the architects came up with the idea of building pig skyscrapers along the coast. The 40-story towers would include pigpens with balconies providing sunlight, ceilings rigged with self-serve straw bales, slaughterhouses and hydroponic feed farms.