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Expo in Nouakchott
2008-06-03 11:18:00 Finally, from 2nd until 16th on june, in the French Cultural Center of Nouakchott there's an exhibition of recycled furnitures that "kkdlvkpk" has produced since 6 years. Everybody is welcome!! » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Expo
Rotating door ,
2008-06-03 09:37:00 Old doors , created a new rotating door and transform a factory Hal to an exposition space, » <a href='http://stortplaatsvandromen.blogspo t.com/'>original news</a> More About: Door , Rotating
Table with an old icebox
2008-06-01 18:04:00 Music studio in a recycled table,a old icebox...Hello, i´m a Designer/artist from Spain... » <a href='http://romantorre.wordpress.com/200 8/05/13/diy01-como-hacer-una-mesa-recicla ndo-una-nevera/'>original news</a> More About: Table
Space Odyssey Slab
2008-05-29 23:17:00 This container dwelling remained me bit of the black slab from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Besides the reuse of containers, the design also reuses metal stamp residu and school-lockers. Check also the Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petraalsbach /sets/72157594572387467/ for more details. Container House (2007) Shipping Containers Wellington, New Zealand Source: http://www.jetsongreen.com/2008/04/indust rial-cont.html » <a href='1'>original news</a>
The Beer Man Can
2008-05-29 08:20:00 When the beer is in the man, the wisdom is in the can. But when the can is the man, he could be very wise. Yes he can. More thirst: http://www.jengajam.com/r/beer-can-art (especially for miss K.) » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Beer
Side A Side B
2008-05-29 08:19:00 Reuse Workshop, Industrial Design, Guadalajara, Mexico A competition for students of Tecnologico de Monterrey campus Guadalajara, Mexico lead to a number of designs. The students were only given five days to submit their entries. The students were even more inspired because the designs could be included a policy text that will be published later and that will be given to educate politicians and other government officials about design's role in society, reuse, recycling and promoting local industry and tecnologies. The idea was to create a product from existing products instead of creating something from using raw new materials. At first students were surprised that there would not be the freedom they might like to have in other competitions. Then the students were shown examples of another similar competition. Once students looked at those results they took off and started brainstorming. The winning entry was made by: Rosaura Sanchez, Elisa Lua, Anami Orozco, Aldo Alatorre, J... More About: Side
Garbage Warrior
2008-05-27 09:20:00 Garbage Warrior , a film about the creator of the Earthship, Michael Reynolds has been released on DVD "A beautifully filmed opening sequence » <a href='http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp ?sectioncode=429&storycode=3113747&am p;c=2&encCode=00000000014d2812'>or iginal news</a> More About: Garbage
Things you can make at home
2008-05-22 12:34:00 Inspired by the birth of his daughter, Greg Tate's Pinup Lamp uses wooden clothespins that skirt the rings of a wire tomato cage and cast a corona of shadows soothing crankt babies and their new parents alike. » <a href='http://www.design-engine.com/storie s/geniuses.htm'>original news</a> More About: Home , Make , Things
recycled leather design
2008-05-20 14:37:00 recycled leather design jewelry etc. wearable art made of bags, boots , shoes, jackets, sofas etc. » <a href='http://www.artable.nl'>original news</a> More About: Design , Leather
beauty from destruction
2008-05-17 11:32:00 One of the important pieces of cultural heritage that has been lost during the fire in The faculty of architecture in Delft was Rietvelds Aluminium Armchair. "Pressed and stamped aluminium contruction. This chair was probably inspired by military aircraft seats. Constructed from a bent, single sheet of stamped aluminium, the design pushed the materials technical and aesthetic limits further than ever before." ( ) The original prototype was built from the aluminium wing of an English airplane that crashed in the 1940's . Gerrit Oorthuis told me that the one now lost in delft was one of three replica's made by Rietveld in the 60's. The original poroype is damaged and probably stored in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He thinks the relation with airplane-seats is not very likely since Rietveld used the techniques for this chair on many different materials before. This chair has not been Rietvelds only superuse product design, showing that beauty can rise from dest... More About: Beauty , Destruction
sad story in Delft
2008-05-14 01:09:00 tuesday 13th of may is a black day for architecture in holland as the faculty of architecture in Delft cought fire and could not ba saved. Parts of the building collapsed, burying years of research and beautiful works. Due to digitalisation some of the work could be saved but much of the cultural heritage that was inside the building has been lost forever. Although we feel very sorry that also the Miele Spacestation didn't survive more than a year as an espressobar, the loss of famous collections in the library and important models and furniture goes beyond any imagination. In this building thousands of architects found inspiration in their professional career. All The initiators of this website were educated amongst them, convinced of the power of perpetuating materials lives. A simple fire makes such efforts look silly sometimes. In recent years the faculty strongly moved towards the development of a sustainable future. We hope the staff finds the energy to reinvent the faculty ... More About: Story
Rifiu.ti.AMO!
2008-05-13 21:43:00 Napoli & the Waste: local architects and artist will try to figure out how to think about the never ending problem of waste disposal in a new constructive way. A cycle of conferences and workshop organized by Archintorno from the 13/5 to 27/6 in the Faculty of Architecture of Napoli. 2012architecten will be there together with Santiago Chirugeda, Millegomme, Basurama, Husly and many others... » <a href='http://associazionearchintorno.spac es.live.com/'>original news</a>
rotor new office
2008-05-10 12:01:00 Heavy steel beams from a demolition yard in the Anneessens neighbourhood have been used for our mezzanine. The spiral steel staircase, was found on the boardwalk a few streets further. Much of the wood panels we used were found in the dumpster of the Monnaie Opera house that was refurbishing its bar. The ceiling lights were saved only hours before they would have been smashed to give way for the new Brussels Casino at De Brouckère. For the furniture, we mostly used rejects found in containers at several large office buildings. » <a href='http://rotordb.org/projects/2008_La eken101/'>original news</a> More About: Office
The Depot Project
2008-05-09 22:10:00 In March 2008 seven artists were given unrestricted access to Dandenong's historic Grenda's bus depot in Australia prior to its demolition. It seems like Artist Robbie Rowlands must have went through some rooms with a huge pair of scissors: He played with the building as it where made out of paper. His weblog explains Rowlands ways: 'He makes cuts into and manipulates the recognisable, peeling back one form to reveal another, reflecting upon the passage of time and what lies beneath the surface of our familiar world.' Robbie Rowlands (1968) The Upholsterer (2008) Dandenong, Australia More about: The Depot Project : http://depot-installation.blogspot.com/ Robbie Rowlands: http://robbie-rowlands-depot-installation .blogspot.com/ » <a href='1'>original news</a>
Waste Wise
2008-05-03 22:15:00 Waste Wise is a practical, step-by-step program inspiring Victorians (Australia) to minimise waste and maximise the efficient use of valuable resources. Joining Waste Wise is entirely voluntary and there are no costs involved in participation. Waste Wise shows you how to integrate sustainable principles into everyday operations, as well as how your organisation can benefit from the tangible results that flow from commitment to responsible waste management practices. » <a href='http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.a u/www/html/1507-waste-wise.asp'>origin al news</a> More About: Waste
guidelines reuse building
2008-05-02 10:10:00 Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials This project of Aaron Tvrdy foresees waste materials gathered in bulk, refurbished, and stored in regional design centers where designers can create components out of the former waste. One example uses discarded railroad track and ties to create a superstructure for a wood pallet wall system. With a creative design approach, reclaimed material kits can be used to create attractive components that can either celebrate or conceal their original identity. this entry won the student tier of the lifecyclebuildingchallenge 2007. » <a href='http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/20 07/winner-guidelines.php'>original news</a> More About: Guidelines
Lifecycle Building Challenge
2008-05-02 09:56:00 Enter the Lifecycle Building Challenge 2 Lifecycle building reduces construction waste and conserves the embodied energy of buildings. Construction waste totals more than 100 million tons per year, and the embodied energy of building materials accounts for 12% or more of the total energy used in a building. » <a href='http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org'&g t;original news</a>
PAPERLESS Architecture Book
2008-04-30 19:02:00 Piel.Skin is an experimental web book aimed at architecture students. The book literally surfs on several projects, jumping from exceptional exteriors in Asia to intelligently optimized facades in Europe. The book allows playing a virtual tour dedicated to google-earth travellers: By means of clicking on the coordinates of each project begins a journey where you can jump directly to each site and visualize the project within its environment. » <a href='http://skinarchitecture.com/'>or iginal news</a> More About: Architecture , Book
Rowboat Roof
2008-04-19 12:41:00 A boat turned to shelter: The same quality that keeps boats, ships, yachts and the like afloat, also makes it a perfect roof. Rowboat Roof Wooden rowing boat Calgary (bay), Isle of Mull, Scotland Picture placed with kind permission of Jamie Bassnett: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trekkingbrit ain/2147842962/ » <a href='1'>original news</a>
Free Your Mind
2008-04-18 00:14:00 Nick Georgiou found his muse in trash. With stitched folds of thousands of discarded newspapers he creates sculptures. And they create him: brought to the streets of New York it seems as if the sculptures themselves are posing for the camera and in the studio for his canvas. Check out: http://myhumancomputer.blogspot.com/ for more Free Your Mind . Nick Georgiou (1981) Free Your Mind (2008) Newspapers New York, New York, USA » <a href='1'>original news</a>
Tired cars
2008-04-17 01:46:00 tires are to be found everywhere around the world, to discard them companies have to pay about so they are very willing to supply them. sources are bikes, scooters, cars, trucks, airplanes, agriculture Normally a tyre has a metal-mesh-wire lining in the thread to reinforce the surface off the tyre, and an eight mm metal wire along the bead to keep it on the wheel. Scooters and airplane tires have threads without the metal lining. the biggest tires come from the 'earth movers', up to 4 m diameter! The thread with steel-mesh lining can be cut with a strong jigsaw with a wood blade. In the sides, the 'cheeks' of the tire you can cut them by hand with a tapestry knife. You can cut the beads best with a special, expensive, wire cutter. They naturally function really well for toys, and furniture, but are also used as a watertight skin for a house and even to build load bearing walls Mille gomme is the specialist in holland. They build amazing objects from tyres on site. www.milleg... More About: Cars , Tired
Cola Gondola
2008-04-16 22:23:00 The Cola Gondola is made from forty 3-liter PET bottles. Each tube is pressurized to 5 psi* to add rigidity. The Gondola weighs just 14 lbs (6 kg) and is 'really easy to car-top at 12 feet long'. Here is a manual to make your very own: http://www.hometown.aol.com/Sneelocke/Col a_Gondola.htm Andrew A. Kinsman Cola Gondola (2004) 40 3-litre PET-bottles Victor, NY, USA Source: http://www.hometown.aol.com/Sneelocke/ *)A single PET-bottle can, according to this YouTube-movie, take up around 185 psi (12,7 bar), before bursting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QvUC3Eqx A » <a href='1'>original news</a>
PET-bottle Temple
2008-04-16 09:59:00 At Heijplaat, an old citypart of Rotterdam, during the folly festival Follydock 2007, Salzig design team created the Temple of Trash. The divined construction consisted of 100 bales of pressed PET-bottles. The sacred place, had a base of 25 by 10 m measured 7m high. The visitor could make his own experience in, at, near, in between, by this temple. In the temple garden blossomed 47000 sun-flowers. Roads where framed with 1500 flowers. The diverse impressionistic touches would form a sacred place for the biggest recycling machines of Europe. Freely quoted: http://salzigdesign.com » <a href='1'>original news</a> More About: Bottle
Planemotel
2008-04-14 17:32:00 In New Zealand, one of the last allied planes out of the Vietnam war, a 1950's Bristol Freighter, has been refurbished into 2 self-contained motel units. One suite is in the cockpit, the other in the tail. The plane is part of a complex with a converted rail car and boat. Planemotel Bristol Freighter (1946-1958) Woodlynpark, New Zealand http://www.woodlynpark.co.nz/accommodatio n.html Source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/r ecycled_hotels.php » <a href='1'>original news</a>
Aquarius Catedral
2008-04-14 11:01:00 close to madrid in Mejorada del Campo one can visit a man built cathedral made out of urban remains. Youtube shows a documentary on the maker of the aquarius cathedral; Don Justo Allegro via 'damn' » <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyg wz8ri20&feature=related'>original news</a> More About: Aquarius
www.thuisvlucht.nl
2008-04-11 16:01:00 I became attached to an old chair I once found on the street, which I took home to use. It has served me well for a long time. Now, the chair has broken down, but it still represents an emotional value to me, accumulated over the years. So I divided it up into 1727 buttons, each of them tagged with a number, a thread and a label, indicating their original location in the chair. In each button the connection with my home lives on. They can be bought trough the internet, www.thuisvlucht.nl, and their distribution indicates my home spreading out over the world. » <a href='http://thuisvlucht.nl'>original news</a>
Victory Kebab Lamp
2008-04-11 09:23:00 A carefully collage of trash, pilled on top of each other and crowned by a light. Harry Richardson and Clare Page, who form Committee, made a small series of Kebab lamps: A colourful assortment of pottery animals, vases, figurines, boxes and other bric-a-brac. Objects come from the streets, flee markets and junk stalls. 'Looking at these objects, it isn't clear if they are beautiful and noble on their way up to the heavenly rubbish dump in the sky, or a chintzy portrayal of consumption.' Richardson and Page formed Committee in 2001 and work as designers applying 'pragmatism and imagination' to explore 'the drama of the everyday'. 'The drama of the everyday is an important theme for us, and the Kebab Lamp explores the possibility of making a spectacle of attractive qualities out of the random and ordinary. Each one is hopefully a celebration of the very human instinct to aspire to the absolutes of beauty, elegance and sexiness from the jumble of everyday existence.' Co... More About: Victory
can the can house
2008-04-11 09:23:00 Some years ago architect Richard Van Os Keuls of Silver Spring, Maryland started using discarded aluminium drink cans as siding for a house extension. (I also know a guy who had planned on using old vinyl LP records as roof shingles.) Richard washes his cans so ants want find the normally sweet and sticky innards too attractive. Then he stomps them flat, before pounding them with a sledgehammer to round the corners. Aluminium nails secure them in a shingle-like formation, to a plywood/insulation board wall, that is now resplendent with a fishscale look. He expects their various colours to fade over time, but doesn't plan on painting over the surface, because he now likes the way light plays on their many surfaces. Additionally he notes that they aren't noisy during rain, and have yet to develop the common chalky oxidation, which aluminium exposed to the elements can develop. Perversely when he first set out to collect extra cans from his local neighbourhood dump, this enterprising... More About: House
The Air Bear
2008-04-10 20:14:00 On the streets of New York, Joshua Allen Harris creates inflatable animals by tying plastic shopping bags to the subway grates: Air Bear : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dF5aTn7W M&feature=related Air Zoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir0U3VNYg_ w&feature=related Joshua Allen Harris (ca. 1977) Air Bear (2008), Air Zoo (2008) Plastic shopping bags New York, USA Air Bear video made by Joshua Allen Harris http://www.youtube.com/user/harrisdanger, Air Zoo video made by Marc Schil http://www.youtube.com/user/MarcSchil » <a href='1'>original news</a>
recycled parachute silk!
More articles from this author:2008-04-10 15:21:00 clothing made out of war remains... » <a href='http://www.emaharishi.com/?keyword= recycl&action=search'>original news</a> More About: Silk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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