Call that a bottle top? This is a bottle top! Jorre van Aste’s jar tops reminded us of this, the Twist and Spout, been around for a while but we noticed it again on the Core77 gift list.
We also saw this on their list, an elegant hybrid adaptively reusing the design of both the coat [...]
Jorre Van Ast is a young designer with a thing about clamps.
This table made from a door with ready made legs that clamp on
is a spinoff from his clampology project,
a series of clamps that can be adapted for a number of uses.
So, a few clamps, some pilfered bricks, milk crates and fence palings, [...]
We thought this was a brilliant illustration of a fundamental principle of both adaptive reuse and of chaos theory, namely that sometimes only the smallest alteration is needed to produce something radically different. We found it on Ain’t It Cool News.
The opponents of heritage conservation and adaptive reuse are usually overjoyed when a mishap like fire destroys a building on a site that they would rather see redeveloped as a big box shopping mall or something equally visionary.
But sometimes all is not lost - the Parthenon for instance was blown up when being used to [...]
Decorate your tree with adaptively reused circuit boards, then buy presents
like this American Gulag bracelet from richterstudios inc,
or wineglasses from the Eden Project store
or a paper pot maker
or a personal solar panel
or a Rockbox open source mp3 player (photo by Andrew Mason).
or a MAKE warranty voider (go on, you know you want one) or any [...]
In our disillusionment we no longer sniff out adaptively reused bicycle furniture yet we still stumble across it. Here’s some more, a new and uncomfortable variation on the park bench by Swedish designer Frida Ottemo Kallstrom.
Not much potential for adaptive reuse by homeless people although they maybe able to drape it with plastic and sleep [...]
Is it adaptive reuse if you find that simulacra can be used as the thing itself, if a film set of a house is lived in? Look at this story (via Digg) about Tunisians living in the houses built as Star Wars sets. All a bit Truman Show and as categorically tricky as transubstantiation.
It’s as [...]
We tend to be uninterested in adaptive reuse projects that are little more than renovations or restorations. It’s not that they are unworthy because they are extremely important - contemporary adaptive reuse is based on sustainability principles on the one hand and heritage conservation as a basic social building block on the other. It’s just [...]
and you gotta smoke a lotta dope and that’s the only possible excuse for this,
Teenar The Girl Guitar, an adaptively reused vintage mannequin. It’s from here via BoingBoing.
One way to adaptively reuse Christmas would be to move it back a day. December 24 2006 would have been the 99th birthday of Isidor (Izzy) Feinstein (Stone),
probably the greatest investigative journalist that ever lived and a birthday far more worth celebrating than Christmas - after all, at least we know Izzy Stone actually [...]
