Monthly Archives: June 2006

mmmm, interesting, unusual…

June 29, 2006 – 1:21 am

I love op shops but more as a type of museum, somehow I just don’t want to revisit most of those styles, they were bad enough first time around. But designer Rita DiLorenzo of black label SF uses recycled clothes as her raw material, recombining and reshaping them, blacking out their old labels. She mixes [...]

By Ian Milliss | Posted in clothing | Comments (0)

Little boxes made of ticky tacky

June 27, 2006 – 10:51 pm

This is recycled rather than reused but what the heck. It’d make a pretty good weekender. Its one of six houses from Houses of the Future, one of those projects that should be rerun every few years.

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Glass box bad!

June 27, 2006 – 11:57 am

Well maybe not all glass boxes are bad. And this has to be the most extreme makeover of a warehouse to be found anywhere in the world. It’s the proposed new Hamburg concert hall by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, 2001 Pritzker Prize winners, architects of Tate Modern (another great adaptive reuse), etcetera etcetera [...]

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Flying low

June 26, 2006 – 11:45 pm

What LOT-EK can do with shipping containers has to be seen to be believed. Oh I do love a shipping container, but I could fill this whole blog with them so I’ll restrain myself. Instead, let’s look at what they can do with an old airplane fuselage. LOT-EK’s proposal for the Jalisco Library, Gudalajara, Mexico [...]

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