Handrails made by Al Frego from reclaimed boiler pipes salvaged onsite
North Carolina, USA - The building materials reuse community is comprised of many individuals and groups - preservationists, contractors, policy wonks, developers, associations, reuse retailers, government agencies, and pr...
Washington, USA - Designer Saffronia Baldwin asks do you have the courage to design with a quirky flair? Quirkiness is defined as different, unexpected, off-beat, out of the box, and memorable. Design with a quirky fla...
The law for illegal selling of ivory is enforced in California. These elephants are antique ebony and ivory and would be banned from sale in the US state. [photo cc by William Warby on flickr
California, USA - Officers from the California department of fish and game have recently begun to enforce a law stating that it is illegal to sell, or to posses with the intent to sell, ivory regardless of age anywhere...
El Dorado salvaged materials from the existing warehouse on the project site for use as interior finish materials for the Finn Lofts in Wichita Kansas [photo The Finn Lofts
Dist. of Col. (Washington DC), USA - Ian Volner is a writer for Architect, the magazine for the American Institute of Architects. His article 'Architecture's afterlife' discusses the ongoing obsession of recycling obsolete building mater...
Texas, USA - Reclaiming builder Dan Phillips reconnects with his primal self, running the gamut of Gestalt psychology, Nietzsche, Apollo, Dionysius, the Industrial Revolution, patterns, Plato, social anthropology,...
California, USA - Vintporium Architectural Salvage of San Jose has put this YouTube clip on their Facebook page of a man having a bath suspended from a hot air balloon in 1931. His landing looks precarious but we canno...
California, USA - Send this simple video link to politicians, construction professionals, environment quangos, researchers, students and government policymakers. It approaches the issues at a level they may just about ...
Ohio, USA - Wooden Nickel Antiques of Cincinnati have some genuine vintage industrial urban chic warehouse carts, 15ins high by 54ins by 27ins, for sale at $375 in their latest enews.
'Warehouse carts are back...
Timeless Materials, Canada have a pinterest page, the next big thing in social photo sharing
Iowa, USA - Pinterest is a social photo sharing website. Users can load up photos in a pin board style to their own special page. Other users can re-pin photos to their page.
Timeless Materials in Waterloo, On...
Part of the former Capitol Records pressing works in Scranton [photo Google Street View
Pennsylvania, USA - Olde Good Things architectural salvage, trading in Scranton, New York and Los Angeles, has bought the 250,000 square feet former Capitol Records pressing works in Scranton for $400,000. In its heyday ...
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