Tallinn bus shelter "an experimental fragment" built from reclaimed materials
Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale. More
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"Interactive architecture game" encourages players to get creative with waste materials
Visitors to the Replay event at the Design Museum during London Design Festival were able to participate in a game designed to make use of waste materials gathered from the city's workshops. More
Measured Architecture designs Shor House to be a "test bed of recycling"
Salvaged lumber and Corten steel were used to create a waterfront house on a British Columbian island that belongs to the founder of Measured Architecture and was designed to explore a "zero-take approach" to design and construction. More
Waste textiles turned into sweets in FabriCandy project
Scraps of fabric have been recycled into edible treats by designer Jinghan Li, who wants people to consider waste as a resource for food. More
EJM Studio's Pew stool reimagines traditional church pews with "tricky angles and curves"
London-based EJM Studio has designed a collection of oak stools made from repurposed timber, modernising traditional British church pews with a contemporary sculptural approach. More
Five Glastonbury stages made from ex-military helicopters and other reused materials
This year's Glastonbury festival debuted stages constructed using reclaimed materials, from storm-felled trees and helicopters to pieces of Heathrow's defunct Terminal 1. Here are five of the most interesting. More
WonKy embraces reclaimed materials for "all-weather" woodland education centre
An old shipping container and military parachute make up The Clearing education centre that architecture studio WonKy has created in Lesnes Abbey Woods in London. More
Frying pans and tennis balls feature in collection made from found objects by London Met students
Students from London Metropolitan University worked with Benchmark to create a range of products using the furnituremaker's wood offcuts and objects gathered from the streets of London for Clerkenwell Design Week. More
SunRice installation explores new uses for world's "most widely consumed food"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota used a kind of artificial stone made with waste rice husks to create this modular installation in the Brera botanical garden for Milan design week. More
Paris 2024 Olympic Village features street lamps made from salvaged building materials
Ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris, design offices Concepto and Studio 5.5 have installed 350 street lights made from salvaged scaffolding poles and lampposts in the athletes' village. More
Garbage Kids displays playful recycled furniture collection at Milan design week
Georgia-based design collective Garbage Kids has exhibited a "long-lasting" collection of wooden furniture and ornaments made solely from recycled materials at Milan design week. More
Adam Sheet is a waterproof biotextile made from apple waste
Japanese design studio Sozai Center has created Adam Sheet, a washable and scratch-resistant biomaterial made of leftover apple pomace mixed with bioplastic. More
Hundreds of Max Lamb works shown with cord-covered objects by Jay Sae Jung Oh
Hundreds of pieces by UK designer Max Lamb and pieces made with cord-covered waste material by South Korean designer Jay Sae Jung Oh are being displayed at New York gallery Salon 94 Design. More
Lab La Bla constructs miniature golf course from recycled denim and mining dust
Malmö studio Lab La Bla unveiled Surface Club, a bar and mini-golf course made from waste materials including Tetra Pak packaging, at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. More
Furniture made from scrap aluminium carries "traces of giant factory saws"
Dutch design firm Studio ThusThat has developed a series of furniture and homeware that was cut from a single sheet of aluminium "crust" – an offcut of the smelting process. More
Haneul Kim recreates Mario Botta's Shogun lamp using salvaged cinema screens
Designer Haneul Kim has joined forces with CGV, South Korea's largest cinema chain, to form a series of table lamps from the company's discarded screens. More
"Real-life Lego kit" used to create Palm Springs apartment block
Florida-based manufacturer Renco has used stackable, Lego-like blocks made of repurposed materials to build an apartment block in Palm Springs designed by architecture studio Arquitectonica. More
CornWall gives discarded corn cobs new life as tiles
Materials companies Circular Matters and StoneCycling have used corn cobs – one of the world's most plentiful agricultural waste materials – to make interior cladding that is biodegradable and almost entirely bio-based. More
Blurring Boundaries wraps sculptural brick home around tree in Indian forest
Indian studio Blurring Boundaries has used organic forms and natural materials throughout Asmalay, a curvaceous home that wraps around trees in a forest near Mumbai. More
Javier Guzmán Cervantes showcases furniture made from urban waste in Mexico
Mexican architect Javier Guzmán Cervantes has collected urban waste materials including cinderblocks and rebar to create a series of furniture for a show in Mexico City. More