Tag: Recycled Building Materials - Page 3
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A Re-Adapted "Local": Garbage Skips Transformed into Storytelling Bar & Café (Video)
Marshalling discarded materials, furniture and help from local residents, these two Dutch designers created an improvised local meeting place.
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Designed for Biophilia: Mindful Furniture Enhances Love for Life
This Brooklyn-based design studio is looking to nurture the undeniable bond between humans and the web of life (biophilia) -- through furniture.
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Simple, Lovely Furniture Is Made from Salvaged NYC Wood
Yorkwood Co. is a Brooklyn-based design build firm that works only with materials salvaged from around New York City.
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Lynn Knowlton's House In The Trees Is Built From A Recycled Barn
Just about everything in this gem of a tree house is recycled from somewhere
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Retro-Flavored, Reclaimed Wood Furniture by Mitz Takahashi
This Montreal-based furniture designer turns scrap hardwood pieces into well-crafted works for the home.
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Massive Pavilion Covered with 7,000 Pallets at Rio+20 Exhibition
It's part of the exhibition at Athletes' Park, in which national and state governments showcase their efforts in sustainable design.
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Clever Rotating Bookcase Wall Is Made with Reclaimed Plywood
A full-wall bookcase becomes a flexible room-dividing element through rotation: now you see it, now you don't.
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Abandoned Gas Station Becomes a Restaurant
It used to be a gas station, and suddenly it's a (don't say pop-up) restaurant.
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Living Room Set Is Made from Repurposed Industrial Materials
A small design show featured chairs, a table and more made from old industrial materials.
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Maker Faire 2012: Gon KiRin, a Fire-Breathing Dragon Made from Recycled Scraps
This fire-breathing scuplture was a hit at Maker Faire Bay Area.
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Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei has a New Work Made out of Old Chinese Temples
This brave and controversial artist has a new piece in Washington that is a statement about destruction and the state.
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Homemade Chicken Coop with Beer Can Shingles Was Built in 10 Hours for $40
A chicken coop in North Carolina shows just how much you can do with discarded building materials.
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Paper Geodes Add Life and Surprise to Old Buildings
Call them urban treasures, what is going on in the corner of this building....
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Officina Roma: A Villa Entirely Built Out Of Trash
It wasn't built in a day, but a week is pretty fast for 24 high school students.
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Ruined Rec Center Gym Floor Gets Upcycled into Furniture with a Story
Wool Hat Furniture in Colorado has salvaged the old flooring of a local rec center gym and made it into new furniture.
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Book Review: London 2012 Sustainable Design, Delivering a Games Legacy
This book has to be the definitive guide to sustainability at London's 2012 Olympic Games.
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From Meat Packing Plant to 93,500 s.f. Off-Grid Vertical Farm and Brewery
A piece of Chicago's industrial heritage is going to be converted into a futuristic farm and food production facility, running on 100% renewable energy.
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The Week in Pictures: Rolling Homes, a Self-Destructing Fountain, and More
In 1934, rolling homes were proposed, to make life more mobile than ever. Plus, a cardboard mockup of Rome's Trevi Fountain will be destroyed by nature, trash sculptures make wild shadows, and more.
