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Guerrilla Upcycling: Public Furniture Made of Parisian Trash

As darkness descends these guerrilla activists hit the streets, not to protest or graffiti but to build and install community infrastructure from the discarded roadside scraps of Paris, ...

Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete

Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business - but perhaps it does not have to be. What if demolition teams could precisely separate ...

Gone to Seed: 9 Green Plant-Sprouting Product Designs

Once a product's primary function has been served, most of us choose to either throw away or recycle whatever is left. An increasing number of products, though, are meant to be reincarnated as ...

Grey Gold: Shower + Clothes Washer = Wise Water Recycling

Conserving water is something we should all be concerned with - but it isn't always easy to do when we've got clothes and skin to wash. The WashIt is a concept that makes use of grey water, or ...

Dumpster Drinking! Skips Turned into Miniature Bars

What is trash, really, but materials that certain people decide are no longer useful? Scraps of wood, broken furniture and other piece of so-called junk sitting in a dumpster might seem destined ...

Towers of Trash: 5000-Foot Junk Skyscrapers to Fuel Cities

The Germans have a dark joke about their low-water-consumption, eco-friendly toilets and cultural history, which goes something like this: you have to look at your garbage before you get to flush ...

Modern-Day Sky Castles: 7 Cool Converted Watertower Houses

Water towers have been a common sight in cities, towns and villages all across the world since at least the Industrial Revolution. As certain towers fall out of use for one reason or another, ...

Sink Different: Macquarium Gives Used iMacs New Life

“I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC”. The Macquarium is both, if you spell the latter “P Sea”. Call it smug or just a clever way to recycle Apple's iconic iMac G3; either way the Macquarium is an ...

Hunker in the Bunker: 15 Cool Converted Concrete Shelters

Once, they were bomb shelters, fortified underground structures that housed military operations or nuclear warheads. Today, they're apartment buildings, tea houses, hotels and art galleries. ...

Pop-Up Pulp: Book Covers Made Into Dramatic 3D Scenes

The sensational cover art of old pulp fiction novels has long been a source of fascination for lovers of unusual art. The images on the front of the books almost seemed like natural extensions of ...

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