September 22, 2006 – 12:04 am
I look at that image and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. We work as heritage consultants and the destruction of a heritage building in that way is heart breaking, although it interestingly demonstrates that adaptive reuse can be a more complex issue than it appears at first. On the other hand I [...]
September 21, 2006 – 10:21 pm
spam, spam, spam, spam…what good is it? Well, believe it or not it can be adaptively reused. You can make a t-shirt from it, you can make poetry and pictures with it or you can make sculpture with it and plants. But the site where the images above come from is very annoying because alex [...]
September 16, 2006 – 9:08 pm
Frank Schreiner’s 1983 ‘Consumer’s Rest’ chair made from a shopping trolley is now a design classic. With a limited edition of only 100 they rarely appear on the market and when they do the price is skyrocketting. It must now stand as one of the earliest examples of a product remanufactured from another mass produced [...]
September 10, 2006 – 9:06 pm
The sad saga of the Thomas Street, Box Hill garden that was posted on Lucazoid’s site got us looking at urban agriculture. The residents had turned the entire backyard into an organic vegetable garden only to discover their landlord was a lawn lover who considered they had damaged the property. The whole garden had to [...]
September 9, 2006 – 12:07 am
We love the Yes Men and we love the way they adaptively reuse, for good, the stolen identities of some of the biggest bastards on the planet. Andy of the Yes men once appeared before a Sydney accountancy conference as a World Trade Organisation representative to announce a new direction. As they explained…. The World [...]
September 8, 2006 – 11:18 pm
The most extreme adaptive reuse of mobile phones is to detonate bombs (And if you need more proof of the militaristic brainwashing that has infected parts of the US, read the rest of that site.). But a better use of old mobiles is to recycle them. Smile Plastics recycle anything made of plastic into solid [...]
September 6, 2006 – 11:23 pm
A tuffet is a low stool or a clump of grass and you can sit on either. The days of the hedge carpenter and chair bodger may be long gone but you can still grow your own stool… Or you could even turn your lawn into an armchair… provided you can stop laughing at this [...]
September 6, 2006 – 10:25 pm
The crazy proliferation of highways has left a century or more of rail infrastructure redundant. As it languishes it often turns into the only nature reserve in highly urbanised areas. The High Line in New York is a typical example. If you’ve ever been to Chelsea you’ve probably seen it. It’s a mile and a [...]
September 5, 2006 – 9:27 pm
We’ve been a bit slow with posts in the last few weeks because we’ve been moving this blog and a few others we are involved in from blogger to their own websites, a small sign of their growing success. But we’re back to work now. Let’s start with Bower, a repair and recycling centre in [...]
