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Have you ever experienced a night in concrete pipes? Well, if not, we strongly suggest you have a try and you’ll see it’s not that boring as you may have imagined. But before that you need to get a touch with T3arc’s TuboHotel. It is a mini hotel located in Tepoztlan, Mexico and it was built from recycled concrete pipes. Each room may seem bit of small on the pictures but actually they offer a really cozy living as well as some beautiful panoramic views of the Sierra del Tepozteco. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home provides a clever and practical way to expand the area of your living space. It uses a small car docked underneath a 100 square feet house to act as an extra room so that the total reconfigurable space inside the Habitat Micro Home would reach 132 square feet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A really great artist can create wonderful things almost anywhere – on walls, grounds, lips, eyelids, or on book pages. Look at these paintings from Mike Stilkey, I bet everyone would think of one same word “wow”. But wait, and imagine what will happen when these books fall apart onto the ground… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Several years after discarded on street, one old bicycle recently finds its new functions: to work as a special city decoration. Painted with bright pink color and built with a basket for flowers, this bike now seems rightly one of fabulous sculptures commonly seen in cities. Clever!

Cheerful about the coming summer and planning to show off your cute feet? Then you must get some special shoes before that, such as Lauren Milroy’s Color Pencil Sandals. They’re all made with old color pencils, but feature a beautiful pattern and more importantly an “eco” theme. Maybe, you can still draw something with them as you walk on the road. Haha, just for kidding! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Disposable wooden chopsticks, although deemed to have destroyed a vast amount of trees, are still in great need nowadays. But fortunately we may have the hope to see our forests saved with Chung Ran Hee’s Re-Paper Chopsticks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Long-Bin Chen’s Reading Sculptures prove that incredible art can be made with almost everything, even with discarded items. With his rich imagination and outstanding skills, the artist has transformed old telephone directories, old books and other printed material into sculptures shaped like human heads and figures. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Australia-based designer Trent Jansen have made many cycle signs out of old road signs collected from several sources in Australia. There’re two versions available: a spoke clamp and a strap. They may seem bit of small in size, but they perform quite well in reflecting light and therefore can attract other drivers’ attention. [Read the rest of this entry...]

42 pieces of floppy disks were recently brought together and found their new function, that is, to work as an innovative handbag! It is really a clever way to recycle old things. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Some materials usually seem so common that we seldom though to make them into something more creative. But this PVC House designed by Hoogte Twee has proved that we should have thought of that, because we may produce really amazing things though with ordinary materials. Yups, the B (h) uis looks very magic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Use our intelligence. We should do this because we can create innovative or even magical things with our talent, just as Sandy Sanderson makes these mini cars with old cans, metal wires and his imagination. So incredible! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Old wine bottles now have their new brighter future, and soon you’ll find them back with the same function as wine cups. After cutting, polishing and other processes, old wine bottles then turn into lovely cups with beautiful decorative patterns, making them still popular at home and in the bars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Craig Smith, who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has made a unique snow removal using his two old bikes. The new vehicle looks bit of impractical on pictures, if you couldn’t control two bikes at the same time. But according to Mr. Smith, his DIY snow removal three-wheeler performs very well in cleaning the snow. So will you make one too? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bike inner tubes usually have excellent flexibility and toughness, however we seldom get a chance to reuse them… Until we have these IT Clips. [Read the rest of this entry...]

On a design show held by Triumph Motorcycles and Birmigham Institute of Art and Design, many students brought us with various smart gadgets made out of recycled motorcycle parts. [Read the rest of this entry...]