Cliff Kuang over at FastCompany just posted about a Dutch company’s seemingly simple, but apparently substantial shipping innovation: collapsible shipping containers. Dubbed the Cargoshell, the containers would look identical to their rigid counterparts if their mid-sections weren’t creased with a perimeter-length hinge. But don’t let its appearance fool you; the Cargoshell may have a sea-changing [...]
Stumbling upon this beer (Busch, thank you) bottle house sure adds a bit of perspective to ongoing efforts at sustainable and adaptive-reuse design. It was built in 1905 by a fellow named Tom Kelly in Ryolite, Nevada (for which a mining boom went bust and all life left in 1920). Faced with the area’s scarcity [...]
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