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OK, enough gloom, let’s get it all into perspective. If you need to understand that apocalypse could still be fun then you need go no further than the Heidelberg Project in Black Bottom (seriously!), one of the famously derelict suburbs of Detroit.
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Strictly speaking the […]
A bookcase adaptively reused as a staircase or a staircase adaptively reused as a bookcase? Oh well, taxonomy always was a taxing discipline. You have no doubt already seen these stairs or bookcase in the last week or so - although I can’t remember where I saw them first. But Apartment Therapy is […]
We’re back after a desperately needed break, last year was far too busy and problematic, hence the slow posting. Hope you all had a happy buying season and paid due obeisance to the gods of consumerism - at least you can be sure they exist.
Let’s do a bit of a round up to get […]
We’ll confess we’d like to be corrupted and this post is a straight out attempt at getting some payola. Admittedly the subject, the Dutch designers Meesters & Van Der Park, deserve all the praise we can give them but unfortunately they have just announced the split up of their partnership.
So we’re saying nothing but the […]
If there is one thing we are looking forward to this year it’s the test run of Behrokh Khoshnevis’ Contour Crafting 3D House Printer in April 2007. You could call it printer technology adaptively reused but it’s more a case of evolved.
So, print yourself a house then pop out to your shed where you keep […]
Let’s be even more critical than usual. This stuff is just plain bloody awful. Since we are not interested in shaming we won’t even tell you where it comes from,
the point is that it is indicative of something that seems to be increasing, fake adaptive reuse, a sort of greener shabby chic.
It tries […]
Part One
There is nothing new about pedal power electricity in Australia, in fact throughout most of the twentieth century the adaptively reused bike pedal was essential to two of the mainstays of outback life, the Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air. Both relied on radio powered by a pedal generator […]
For quite a few years now the Dutch have produced some of the best design in the world. Pragmatism seems to be a national characteristic and it’s an attitude that lends itself to adaptive reuse, seen here in one of the first bits of contemporary Dutch design to catch our attention.
This is Tejo Remy’s (warning […]
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, […]
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