Adaptive Reuse: 20 Brilliant Recycled Buildings
Recycling discarded materials into new buildings and adapting disused structures to new uses is not just about sustainability – it is also about savvy innovation and stylish adaptation. Some architects build modular wonders from existing units (such as shipping containers). Others draw from recycled, found and local materials (or entire old buildings) to create aesthetically amazing designs that brilliantly blend old and new.
Spiral island (shown above) is just one such example: an incredible mobile private island floating on 250,000 recycled plastic bottles off the coast of Mexico. From a pre-industrial pigsty converted to a postmodern home and a magnificent monastery built from a million glass bottles to adaptively reused cargo containers, airplane hangars and water towers, here are twenty awesome more examples of brilliantly creative and sustainably innovative recycled architecture. Click below to learn more:
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- Recycled Glass Bottle Building
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- Pig Sty Building into House Conversion
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- Recycled Trailer Theatrical Set Design
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- Stonefridge the Recycled Fringe Henge
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- Water Tower House Adaptive Reuse
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- Airplane Hangar to Indoor Water Park Conversion
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- High Line Railroad to City Park Conversion
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- Adaptive Reuse of Garage as House
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- Container City Modular Mixed Use Buildings
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- Transforming Cargo Container Home Module
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- Shipping Container Office and Shop Tower
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- Creative Shipping Container Playground Design
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- Cleverly Camouflaged Cargo Container Home
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- Giant Cargo Container Hotel Building
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- Modular Cargo Container Housing Designs
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- Super Sustainable Cargo Container Home
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- Amazing Recycled Metal Sculpture Park
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- Art Park Created from Recycled Materials
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- Recycled Plastic Bottle Igloo Building
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- Structural Sand Bag Walled House
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- Even More Amazing Recycled Architecture
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- Even More Cargo Container Buildings
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- Creative Recycled Material Furniture Designs
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- Creative Recycled Art Made from Trash
FYI : Freitag is Swiss, not German…