Finding the new in the old.

I found this project as I was doing some design image research for a rural green community in Arizona. I liked it so much, I thought I’d post it. Combining the new with the old has always been an expected architectural talking point, but one really takes notice when the new form honestly arises from [...]

Posted at 3:19 pm on February 5, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Design | Tagged: , , | read on

Upcycle Living – Phoenix, AZ

Here is a great local company that I really like.  These containers are inevitably not reused because it is cheaper to build new ones than to ship them back, and they are great frames for construction. I bet solutions like this this end up factoring in to part of the rebuilding effort in Haiti, too. [...]

Posted at 9:02 am on January 26, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Arizona, Design, Eco, New Practice, Phoenix, Arizona, Sustainability | Tagged: , | read on