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5:20 am in architects, artists, cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, recycled building material by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
Who could resist this delightful little architectural folly. Spotted on the grounds of the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London, it's a 24-hour mini-gallery with 4 display windows, with a piece of art in each....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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3:33 pm in canada, designs, recycled, recycled building material, recycling, reuse by TreeHugger
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Bottle buildings are what Bernard Rudolfsky called Architecture without Architects, where ordinary people build extraordinary things. At Cap-Egmont in Prince Edward Island, where he was a lighthouse-keeper, Edouard Arsenault started collecting bottles in 1979. According to his daughter Rejeanne on the Bottle Houses website:
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11:22 am in architects, design competitions, recycled, recycled building material by TreeHugger
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After World War II, Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House was seen as an alternative product for the factories and workers who were no longer building airplanes; it used much of the same materials and technologies.
Perhaps architects Craig Hodgetts and HsinMing Fung of HplusF were thinking of Bucky when they developed this design for turning Hummers into housing. The architects are quoted in Read the full story on TreeHugger
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12:56 pm in bedrooms, Design & Architecture, recycled building material, upcycling by TreeHugger
This romantic headboard built by House Tweaking was created with old fence boards.
Photo Credit: CasaSugar.
Call it recycling, upcycling, reclaiming, or salvaging. No matter how you define it, building furniture out of old wood is a major trend at the moment. In the past few days alone, I've seen a sofa made out of wooden pallets at a chic restaurant and a bench mad...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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