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 ...
What started as a set of infinitely-flexible table legs has now spawned a second but equally stellar sibling design: a series of wall brackets that let you turn scraps into shelving and switch ...
Early explorers in the realm of prefab shipping container-based architecture, design studio LOT-EK stacks these steel crates to create everything from compact homes to massive retail complexes. ...
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, ...
All praise the zipper: the ubiquitous, maintenance-free, no muss, no fuss fastener that trumps both buttons and Velcro! Zippers operate smoothly, silently and safely day in and day out, often in ...
Formerly spark plugs of the cold war, dozens of decades-old, decommissioned underground nuclear missile silos are slowly slipping into disrepair and decay. Not all of these relics are destined ...
Cooling towers have come to symbolize power plants - nuclear or not - around the world. Standing hundreds of feet tall with a distinctive hourglass profile, some of these "towers of power" show ...
The relationship between art and the medium in which it is created isn't often as perfectly matched as it is with these cassette tape art pieces. Atlanta-based artist Erika Iris Simmons (better ...
Railroad cars are big, heavy, and cumbersome. They're notoriously hard to move into new locations off of their tracks, and because of their odd shape most people wouldn't think of using them for ...
When old billboards, fire towers and grain silos outlive their old purposes, there’s no need to tear them down – especially since they can be transformed into surprisingly modern, livable ...
