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Dome Dining Disaster: When Reclaiming Public Space Goes Wrong

When the city of Toronto forcibly cleared a homeless encampment beneath a downtown section of Gardiner Expressway only to turn it over to a luxury outdoor restaurant pop-up, people paying $545 ...

Project Bunker Makes a Tiny Home out of a Diesel Oil Tank

People convert all kinds of unlikely objects into homes: sheds, shipping containers, school buses and even decommissioned wartime bunkers. These creative reclaimed homes can range from tiny to ...

Zero Waste Land: 13 Design Projects Making Smart Use of Reclaimed Materials

There's already more than enough plastic, glass and other materials in the world for all of our manufacturing needs - we just have to reclaim and recycle it instead of trying to bury it. For some ...

Underpass Art & Parks: 15 Fun Projects Reclaiming Disused Urban Space

Climbing walls, skate parks, art installations, theaters and even miniature marinas take advantage of the cathedral-like spaces beneath highways and bridges, revitalizing formerly disused and ...

The Power to Change: 12 Brilliantly Reclaimed Energy Stations

As cities grow and their power needs change, the historic and often surprisingly beautiful structures holding turbines, generators, coal and gas are decommissioned, becoming prime candidates for ...

Urban Rigger: Floating Student Housing Made of Shipping Containers

This hexagonal floating student housing complex made of stacked reclaimed shipping containers is better than any dorm you could hope to live in. ‘Urban Rigger’ by Bjarke Ingels (BIG) creates ...

Pipe Dreams: 15 Totally Tubular Scaffolding Creations

Scaffolding usually helps prevent people from getting hurt on the job. If someone is hurt while working on a construction site then they may want to see a lawyer to see if they can get ...

Midcentury Grain Silo to Modern Home: Incredibly Cozy Conversion

With an entirely custom-built interior, a nine-foot-wide sliding glass door and a warm modern aesthetic, this grain silo converted to a compact home seems worlds away from its humble farmyard ...

Great Crates: 10 Beautiful Shipping Container Conversions

Incredibly strong, durable, lightweight and affordable, shipping containers are integrated into into all sorts of architectural projects, whether they're still highly visible components or ...

Seoul Sky Garden: Elevated Urban Park on an Abandoned Highway

Deemed unsafe and left to rot, a stretch of highway in a prime location beside a train station in Seoul, South Korea will soon get a new life as an elevated park. Built in the ’70s, the ...

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