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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 ...

Industrial Rehab: Ruins Provide Framework for Expansive Beach House

A stunning blend of old and new, this lovely oceanfront home is intertwined with remnants of an industrial ruin; the two are combined while differentiating existing from added ...

Stacked Ceramics: Shop Floor Made from 25,000 Pieces of Pottery

A 400-year-old ceramics studio in Japan has completely remodeled their store with a most remarkable addition: a walkable surface constructed from a stack of tens of thousands of scrapped pieces ...

Converted Cockpit: Cockfighting Arena Turned into Sunken Garden

Traditionally legal in Peru, many citizens nonetheless find cockfights a morbid and gruesome affair and are thus celebrating the transformation of this sunken coliseum into a meditative and ...

Oh Snap: Clamping Steel Legs Turn Found Objects into Furniture

Converting almost anything you find into a household furnishing, from discarded doors and shelf boxes to dart boards, these clip-on supports can be added or removed in ...

Lowline for NYC: World’s First Underground Park in Manhattan

Using fiber optics as "remote skylights" to pipe illumination down from the surface, this bold plan aims to transform a century-old trolley station into a bright and green subterranean park. New ...

Deserted for Decades: Derelict Old Building Houses New School

A remarkable example of architectural rehabilitation, this abandoned structure has been given a second life via a fresh facade wrapping a rundown shell. The before-and-after shots illustrate the ...

House of Glass: Cabin Facade from Antique Window Frames

On an unusual kind of cross-country road trip, this couple visited garage sales, antique dealers and added these to other roadside finds, all toward the quest of assembling an an eccentric ...

Retro Redial: 8 Creative Phone Booth Conversion Projects

As you may recall (and please, forgive the pun), pay phones used to be ubiquitous - in many places they remain a physical presence, but without a use. As Banksy's work (above) points out, their ...

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