Metal oil barrels become house bars, vinyl records are turned into wall lamps, books have a second life as coat racks. The latest product series features trivets, egg cups and jewellery made from recycled skateboard decks. The design label Lockengelöt founded by…
From Denim Waste to Marble The Bahia Denim Stool is a sculptural seating piece made from postconsumer denim waste. The discards are draped over a mould and the layers are adhesived together. After the material is dry it is carved to create…
Created in the 1970s by Oscar Niemeyer and his daughter Anna Maria, the Alta Armchair is an icon of Brazilian modernist furniture design. The perfect curve that starts at its base and reaches its backrest is this piece’s most striking feature…
Inspired by the forces at play in a gyroscope and designed to be a central statement to four facades each busy with 7 storeys of bustling workers, the sculpture expresses this rotational energy as perfect rings of light, positioned to appear spinning…
We work exclusively, with historic buildings and define ourselves as a specialist "conservation" consultant. Although the word conservation can embody the repair and refurbishment of a building, we see it as a dynamic creative process, through which buildings maintain relevance and vitality…
Recycling is a process where we change our waste streams into new valuable resources. In our case, we scale up several resources, and bring them back into the economy. We make sure that every furniture design we make contains at least 90%…
The beauty and the significance of our living environments, our place on the map of life, so to speak, is everywhere. But land is too often considered by urban planners and developers more in terms of a commodity, sold by square meters…
Adaptive reuse projects can be illustrated in many different ways, from re-functioning of an old industrial building to converting containers into shopping malls. In fact, the main issue is to transform an old structure with a new function. Adaptive reuse can give…
The concept of sustainable development was introduced in the 1987 Brundtland Report, by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). It defined sustainable development as: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to…
To me adaptive reuse means thinking strategically about the available spaces and how these might be best suited to new uses. Pairing back the original building structure to its essentials and adapting the spaces in a legible way. Our work to transform…
