recycled / upcycled materials and their incorporation into design and art.


Showing posts with label Larry Laslo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Larry Laslo. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2011

cans

wow! there are so many interesting uses of can-cladded architecture! some better than worse, but all interesting to see and learn from!



Clare Graham adapted tin cans into a "wallpaper" of sorts for Larry Laslo's room in the 2008 Kips Bay Decorator Show House. She has quite an eye for reinventing materials. I am sure I will post more on her work in the future! I love the way it interacts with light.

via The New York Times





Pugh + Scarpa designed the Broadway Housing's "building skin [to be] partially clad with recycled aluminum cans formed into building blocks about twice the size of concrete blocks. [They] worked with the state to get the approval to work with local recycling companies to provide the material."

via Inspiration Green





Richard Van Os Keuls' rear-addition to his home in Silver Spring, Maryland is bedazzled with ~15,000 aluminum cans!

via The Washington Post





Here in Texas, John Milkovisch started his aluminum can project in Houston circa 1968.

via The Beer Can House