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LEGO-Like Architecture: $5,000 Homes from Recycled Plastic Blocks

A company in Colombia is tackling plastic waste issues and affordable housing with a single ingenious solution: interlocking LEGO-like bricks that can be used to build houses for a few thousand ...

Extreme Upcycling: Creative Recycled Art, Architecture & Design

Many people associate environmentalism with gloom-and-doom predictions about the planet. While climate change is a serious issue, many artists, architects and other designers are also working on ...

Shipping Manifesto: An Introductory Guide to Building Cargo Container Architecture

In the 1950s, Malcolm McLean developed a modular design that would simplify the loading and offloading of ships, boxing up goods for easier loading and unloading between trains, trucks and boats ...

Experimental Architecture: Testing New Ideas in Living Laboratories

Why should architecture continue to look, feel and function almost exactly as it always has, in spite of a dramatically changing world? Sticking to established conventions is often the easy and ...

Linking Past and Present: Modern Architecture Made of Reclaimed Materials

Recycled architecture is more than just novelty structures and offbeat buildings made from bottles, cans and tires - though those can be pretty cool in their own right. It’s a way to put ...

Designed for Disassembly: Architecture Built with its Own End in Mind

Few of us make plans for our lives with our own deaths in mind, so perhaps it's not surprising that architects don't usually spend much of the design process thinking about the virtually ...

Lush Life: 12 Verdant Architecture Projects Making Plants a Main Priority

Not all architecture incorporating lots of living greenery is doomed to remain an unrealistic rendering, depicting buildings that can't structurally support the weight of all the soil and water ...

Pop-Up Pavilions: 15 Playful Temporary Architecture Installations

Pavilions are like playgrounds for architects and designers, allowing them to show off what they can do when they really set their imaginations free. Unfettered by the typical limitations of a ...

Alien Architecture: Modern Buildings Recast as Extraterrestrial Ships

Composition, color and contrast and go a long way toward reframing photographic subjects, in this case: making familiar architectural forms seem like parts of dark and looming alien ...

Acclaim for the Reclaimed: 14 Cool Upcycled Architecture Projects

Going beyond simple stacks of shipping crates and ripped-apart pallets, these creative upcycled architecture projects reclaim stuff like corrugated iron, 5-gallon water bottles, old doors and ...

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