shipping pallets

the possibilities are endless. shipping palettes can be re-configured to become everything from furniture to sculpture to landscape elements. here are a just a few of the possibilities!







via a.ml und partner







via Be Paletto!





via TreeHugger





via graypants

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

soccer balls + basketballs

I'm always looking for ways to incorporate defunct objects into something functional, especially when it can be out in the landscape. I recently saw a fantastic image of soccer ball flower pots "in situ"-- somewhere in South America, where I assume they had a slew of old soccer balls on hand. but for the life of me, i cannot find it. ha! thus, i started a blog to help me remember these inspirations.

via instructables

vinyl records

Matt Glassmeyer is a Nashville Musician who has applied a music recording medium to a roof. I'm impressed to know that the records do not warp under these conditions; i am going to be looking further into vinyl and weathering conditions... i wonder if it works in this condition because it "breathes" since it is not a sheathing above waterproofing and other non-porous layers. fantastic colors.

via treehugger