World’s Largest Building Made of Recycled Beer Bottles Opens in Las Vegas
The Morrow Royal Pavilion in Las Vegas just claimed the title of the world’s largest building made from recycled bottles! Created by Las Vegas Entrepreneur Scott McCombs, the 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility is made from more than 500,000 beer bottles that were crushed and formed into a composite material called GreenStone that was used to build the structure. The project diverted thousands of pounds of material from the junk yard, saving an estimated 400,000 cubic yards of landfill space – that’s equal to 8 football fields piled to the top of the goal post.
Read more at Inhabitat
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“On a telephone table in the library of the Rue de Babylone apartment: the couture house’s original logo, hand-lettered by graphic artist Cassandre, from 1961.”
Discarded Plastic Bottles turned to Giant Fish Sculptures
Think how many large fish sculptures could be created out of one days worth of world consumption of plastic water bottles, it would be much larger than a school of fish. In conjunction with the UN Conference of Sustainable Development (Rio+20) a number of illuminated fish sculptures were created from discarded plastic bottles in Rio De Janeiro.
(via Juxtapoz Magazine)
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(via 9 0 0 0)What a coincidence—I’m reblogging this for the exact same reason!
A Fairie´s Dream
No photoshop has been used in the making of this Polish ‘crooked house’, a.k.a. the Krzywy Domek by Szotynscy & Zaleski. The askew structure really looks like this in real life. The crooked home, which looks like something straight out of the portfolio of renowned Catalan architect Antonin Gaudi, is a fully functional commercial center in the Polish town of Sopot. The architects involved in the creation of this cutely cartoonish structure state they were largely inspired by the illustration work of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. And, indeed, if you think it looks like the home of the witch in Hansel and Gretel or any other famous fairy tale, you’re not that far off from the truth: the aforementioned artists actually did illustrate children’s stories.
(via The Beautifulist)