From App To Architecture: How Curbside Designed And Built Its "Pickup Pod"

It's made of fiberglass. It's designed to be mass-produced. It's smartphone-enabled. And someday, there could be thousands of them.

I'm standing in a cavernous, hangar-like building in American Canyon, California, 40 miles north of San Francisco in the Napa Valley. Inside the 35,000-square-foot structure is another structure—a gleaming blue-and-white kiosk whose most striking feature is a 20-foot spire topped off by a light-up panel shaped like an upside-down teardrop. I've never seen quite anything like it. Nor has almost anyone else: It's the only one in the world, and it was built in secrecy by a small team inside this facility.

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