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This rammed-earth home features a beautiful, spiraling rooftop garden

Japanese firm Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects has unveiled a beautiful round home that is wrapped in a spiraling rooftop...

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Massive Flash Factory night club built from salvaged materials opens tonight

Located at 229 West 28th Street, Flash Factory, is now one of the city's largest night clubs with 10,000 square...

French Artisan Takes Recycled Metal to the Dark Side with this Awesome Darth Vader Bust

French Artisan Takes Recycled Metal to the Dark Side with an Awesome Darth Vader Bust

French artisan Alain Bellino took his craft to the dark side when he welded a number of leftover metal pieces together...

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Artist Victor Moore Built This Incredible Junk Castle for Just $500

Although found pieces and sculptures of various sorts are scattered about the property, the junk castle stands...

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Tour a Fabulous Brooklyn Brownstone Renovated by NYC Fashion Designer and Homeowner JoAnn Berman

JoAnn Berman first made a name for herself in the 80s and 90s dressing musicians like Michael Jackson, Salt-n-Pepa...

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Moger Mehrhof Architects Build Rustic Birdhouses from Reclaimed Materials

Moger Mehrhof Architects is using an array of sustainably sourced materials to give a modern reinterpretation to...

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Exbury Egg: Amazing Self-Sustaining Floating Office Launches in the UK

The Exbury Egg is a collaboration between British design firm SPUD, Perring Architecture + Design (PAD), boat...

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Iris Industries Launches a Cool New Textile and Building Material Made from Recycled Denim

Iris Industries has just launched it's new sustainable composite: Denimite. This material utilizesrecycled denim...

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Top Ten Green Lighting Designs at New York Design Week 2013

LED Chandelier - by Group-Two Design Group-Two Design's elegant LED Chandelier updates the trope of the classic...

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SandPaper is a Sylish Modular Sofa Made from Recycled Paper Corrugated Cardboard

Ivan Parati's SandPaper is a cool landscape-inspired modular sofa that's been constructed from recycled paper...

Jack Munro Bricks Made from Animal Blood

Could Bricks Made of Animal Blood Be the Future of Construction?

Scientists have been trying to develop cheap, alternative building materials for years. But there's one material...

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Download a Free Copy of 'Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open'

'Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open' by Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan Cullen was released today, and you...

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Fashion Designer Joann Berman Creates Trippy 3D Furniture from Vintage Sofas in Queens

The best way to describe Joann Berman Bespoke Furniture is that it looks like Berman simply replaced the people...

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Chris Palmer's Paper Pulp Series is a Line of Furniture Made of Local Waste Materials

Furniture maker Chris Palmer recently sent us photos of his Paper Pulp Series, a line of furniture made from a...

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This Low-Impact Cabin is Accessed Through a Hidden Retractable Staircase!

Perched on four concrete columns, the cabin is accessed by a motorized staircase that can be lifted like a drawbridge,...

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