Tag: Recycled Building Materials - Page 9
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DIY Homes Using Recycled Pallet Wood - Appalachian Gothic Architecture (Video)
From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students, TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn't have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury.
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Not Made in China, Designer Guillem Ferran Proves a Point with Products Made from Used Pallets (Photos)
Here is a series of objects with the unusual label "not made in China". The Catalan designer Guillem Ferran, whose Where Memory Used To Sit chair collection, Distendido and La Pell leather project we wrote
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Adhocism in Action: Coffee Table Made From Pipe Wrenches
Today we call it repurposing; In 1973, Nathan Silver and Charles Jencks called it Adhocism: It can be applied to many human endeavours, denoting a principle of action having speed or economy and purpose or utility.
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"Kitchen Composition" Built From Scraps
You've got to love the attitude of John Preus and Charlie Roderick of Dilettante Studios in Chicago. They work almost exclusively with found, inherited, re-purposed and salvaged materials, mixing, matching and mashing
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Crack Garden is Not What You Think
This crack garden is not what it sounds like... It's a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune.
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Experimental Furniture Made from Waste Sugar Cane Fiber Bagasse (Photos)
We're intrigued by these experimental furniture pieces recently seen on Designboom. Made by Taiwanese design students Chen Wei-Che and Chung Yo-Hsun this chair and table are made from the waste sugarcane fibre bagasse. Now
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Planet Reuse: A Dating Service For Used Materials
There are some things that the Internet is very good at, including helping put people and people or things and things together. Nathan Benjamin runs a dating service for materials, putting people together with the used
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Rest With Peace of Mind in an Eco-Friendly Coffin
Maybe you did your best to live an eco-friendly life -- you recycled, rode your bike to work, supported the green cause. So, what better way to shed your mortal coils than with an Earth-conscious sendoff in a sustainable
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Buenos Aires renovation has clever use of space, recycled materials
Argentineans are known for making much with little, and this is true in architecture as well. The PH is a local typology of small houses aligned in long and narrow lots, which provides the feeling of a home with some
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90-Year-Old Newspaper House Still Standing Strong
If you think that using creatively recycled materials to build a house is something new, think again. Almost 90 years ago, inventor and engineer Ellis Stenman of Rockport, Massachusetts set out to construct a summer home with thousands
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The Week in Pictures: Banksy on the Simpsons, Formaldehyde in Blowouts, and More (Slideshow)
If you're a fan of "The Simpsons"--or Banksy, for that matter--you have undoubtedly seen this week's intro segment, directed by the mysterious and world-renowned street artist, which attempts to show the ugly side of consumerism--watch the video,
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Upside Down Boats Repurposed As Beautiful Sheds (Photos)
We know that deconstructing huge industrial ships for parts (ie. shipbreaking) can have a huge negative environmental and health impact in developing nations, but what about smaller water craft?
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Russian Woman Builds House of 5,000 Glass Bottles
Besides shipping pallets, milk and beer crates, glass bottles are another building material that can be cheap, easily collected and reused, like in this house of 5,000 glass bottles built by a woman in Novoshakhtinsk,
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Another Reason To Love Reuse: It Creates Lots of Jobs
I am very sorry that I am unable to attend the ReuseConex conference next week; some are calling it the Woodstock of Reuse. I have always made the case that it is far better than recycling, which I consider little more than a
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Stuart Haygarth Recycles Picture Frames Into Colourful Stair at London Design Festival
The London Design Festival is just starting up and once again it is an eclectic mix of events taking place all over town. At the Victoria & Albert Museum there are two great installations, as well as talks and exhibits.
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TYIN Tegnestue - Rustic Yet Sleekly Modern Humanitarian Architecture (Photos)
A few weeks ago I was walking around the WOMAD festival munching on Riverford Organic brownies and sipping from a Frank Water refillable bottle when I stumbled across the Roots Architecture camp and was immediately struck by the beauty
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RUBBiSH: Recycled Rubber Tire Sinks From Minarc
From Earthships and building materials, to water filters, shoes and bags, old rubber tires have long been a veritable gold mine when it comes to material reuse potential. Now Santa Monica, California-based design
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Madison Childrens' Museum "Focuses on Sustainability from Inside Out"
Ever since Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim opened, the museum scene turned into a world of crazy starchitect one-upmanship, with lots of flash and not a lot of sustainability. Childrens' museums are a little less flashy and more green; the Brooklyn
