dyingofcute:

secret garden

acidadebranca:

Black & White Illustrations

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speciesbarocus:

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena - Architettura civile.

mhel02:

Recycled Materials Cottage by Juan Luis Martinez Nahuel in Chile- outside

weffy:

beautiful-portals:

miss-mary-quite-contrary:

(via allthatshines)

unknownskywalker:

Carved Books by Guy Laramee

unknownskywalker:

Burj Khalifa New Year’s Eve Fireworks Show

mothernaturenetwork:

An energy-saving socket concept that’s not for the easily startled
The PumPing Tap is a spring-loaded electrical socket that physically ejects plugs belonging to appliances and electronics that are not being used but still drawing small amounts of energy in standby mode.

subtilitas:

Testing the structural integrity of Felix Candela’s hyberbolic-parabaloid concrete umbrella system, Mexico 1950’s. Via.

buddhabrot:

micasaessucasa:

Mesa View Suite @ Amangiri Hotel

i want to make babies here 

Dodgers: Next 50 Plan. Beautiful site model.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/ballpark/next50/project.jsp

Dodgers: Next 50 Plan renders

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/ballpark/next50/project.jsp

lizmcbride:

unconsumption:

Hard Plastic Bottles, Reborn as a Bridge

The town of York, Me., is putting up what could be a bridge to a better future, not because of it where it goes but because of what it is made of: plastic.

Plastic bottles have been the bane of landfills for decades because they do not degrade. To find other uses for these strong and persistent materials, some manufacturers have melted them into boards for beach house decks or spun them into clothing materials.

But while plastics recycling has become more common since the 1980s, far more could be done, environmental policy makers say. The nation recycles only 27.5 percent of its hard plastic bottle waste, versus 71 percent of its newspapers and 67 percent of its steel cans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 figures.

Now comes Axion International, a New Jersey-based company founded in 2007 that has developed a process to make a building material that is strong enough to supplant steel and concrete but is made out of discarded laundry detergent containers and milk cartons. 

Such plastic building material also could be fabricated into railroad ties, sound barriers along highways, and I-beams, among other uses. In most cases, “the product costs a little less than steel and concrete.”

(via Hard Plastic Bottles, Reborn as a Bridge - NYTimes.com)

Cool!

sustainable-sam:

jenplaysoutside:

green-home:

Abandoned Fishing Boats Transformed Into Beautiful Sheds

 In an incredible example of adaptive reuse, resourceful fishermen on Holy Island in the UK have transformed these retired wooden fishing vessels into stunning storage sheds.

Oh this is so cool.

Things to also live in : an upside down boat.