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- scully32, on 11/16/2008, -1/+17As far as the adaptive reuse of a garage as a house goes... wasn't Fonzie living in the Cunningham's garage?
- BeShirtHappy, on 11/16/2008, -0/+10The industrial office and store tower made completely from stacked shipping containers is really cool.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+10Thos shipping containers are a wonderful item to use in this type of recycling. They are tough and plentiful, at least for now.
My friends in shipping say that it is almost as if someone put the brakes on and stopped shipping. There's not much going on right now. - WordsnCollision, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9Is a monastery built from empty liquor bottles a contradiction in terms?
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5weburbanist always has great pictures
- byronshell, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3A house made of recycled paper would be the ultimate. A couple layers of shellac and you would be set.
- doctechnical, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Trappist Monks have been brewing beer for their inns for centuries. And darned good beer, at that. Mmmmm, Chimay.
- crash331, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3I'd like to add my friend Sam's Treehouse to the list. He built his using various things like a helicopter body and a submarine prop from an Elvis movie. He was also an aide to President Jimmy Carter.
http://www.samstreehouse.com/ - weryon, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3The homeless are getting creative.
- cyrusuncc, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3The shipping container office reminds me of the "I Robot" city where the older robots had to live.
- mesarah, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2What a great post from weburbanish :) I really like idea
- anshuman, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2some of them are really cool makeovers.
- doublefelix, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Since the article didn't contain any additional info on the man made island home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lolQ5pgp6XQ
- Chairboy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2> He was also an aide to President Jimmy Carter.
So he re-used second-hand fame? - doctechnical, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2When I saw all those trailers I thought about the secret headquarters of the Three Investigators.
- cvxdes1, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Way to recycle that trailer trash.
- erichh, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1FYI : Freitag is Swiss, not German…
- sputza, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1The "brakes" would be the ***** world economy.
- PhAndrew, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Redneck Mansion
- AdeleMor, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1those glass bottles are amazing
- aolshove, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Which goes to show that people will live in just about anything.
- muzammalalvi, on 11/17/2008, -0/+0awesome pics. Are they natural ?
- jwylde, on 02/18/2009, -0/+0From an architectural stand-point you can virtually create any structure out of any material; not only making it work but appealing to others.
- SHv2, on 11/17/2008, -5/+2turning ***** into ***** *****. awesome



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