Adaptive Reuse
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No plastic and reusable. Opening and closing can be done by hand as often as you like.
Kein Plastik und Wiederverwendbar.Das Öffnen und Verschließen kann beliebig oft von Hand erfolgen.
A very pleasant wander over a chilly Ingleborough. One of those occasions where I smugly trot down the iced up paths in my microspikes. I'm definitely going to fall on my face next time aren't I?
Whenever we go grocery shopping, I find that I look at the packaging our food comes in as a possible photographic subject. One afternoon my husband came home with a large bag of tangerines. I enjoy that fruit, yet the bag holding the orange orbs made me especially happy.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Love the guys hat in this previously unpublished shot from February 2018 - No. 4201 uploaded to my 'Black and White Streets' album. Enjoy!
What do you do with an old copper bowl that has a hole in it? Some people might fix the hole.
Or, you can make the hole bigger and turn it into a small sink.
What do you do with an old copper bowl that has a hole in it? Some people might fix the hole.
Or, you can make the hole bigger and turn it into a small sink.
The Union Trust Building (501 Grant St., downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), was erected in 1915–16 by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The Flemish-Gothic structure's original purpose was to serve as a shopping arcade.
Known as the Union Arcade, it featured 240 shops and galleries. The mansard roof is adorned with terra cotta dormers and two chapel like mechanical towers. The interior is arranged about a central rotunda, capped by a stained glass dome. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Union Trust Company purchased the structure in 1923, renaming it from the Union Arcade to the Union Trust Building, as well as remodeling the first four floors.
Many people believe that the building's unique roof is the result of a restrictive covenant placed on the land by its previous owner, the Diocese of Pittsburgh
In 2014 the property was sold at a foreclosure auction for $14 million to its current owner, an affiliate of Boston-based The Davis Companies. The Davis Companies' affiliate outbid lender SA Challenger.[8] Extensive restorations were completed in 2016 at a cost of $100 million, with two first-floor restaurants opening and restoration of the tenth-floor theater yet to be completed
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My wonderful SIL created gift bags this year and mailed them early with requests to “open” them!! They are sewn from quilt squares and the back side is red felt— isn’t she clever? The next picture in the photostream shows some of the things that were in the bag!
ANSH scavenger4 something red
LCOF wrapped gifts
……💙 HLCoF 🎁💙
A fence I used once before. I use it again to christen a new lens, and because the fence pickings ain't so good in our neighborhood. Is anyone running fence tours?
HFF to all: Looking forward to seeing everyone's handiwork.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Afrikaanderbuurt, Tweebosbuurt, Demolition, Reuse, Trailer, Crane, Workers (uncut)
This is for the for now the last one of the Tweebosbuurt mini-series. It shows that modern demolition nowadays can be relatively resource-friendly. When possible metal is salvaged from the rubble. And bricks too. After removal of the cement traces, they’re reusable for renovation and new constructions – they’re often used for their rustic appearance.
This is the Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge located in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Many years ago it was repurposed from a Rail Bridge to a walking bridge. In order to visit a family member, we drove from Digby, N.S. to Fredericton N.B.. We had reserved the 4:30pm Ferry but at 3:pm, we received an email stating the Ferry had been cancelled, and in fact never left Fredericton. Bastards!
We kept our cool and decided to make the 6.5 hour drive. We did however, enjoy the scenery along the way. My compliments to those responsible for designing the highway system in Nova Scotia. Other Provinces could learn from those engineers, and how to move traffic both effectively and quickly.
As individuals we need to stop using plastic that is single use, and manufacturers must stop producing the vast majority of it.
ANSH 123 (6) planet first for earth day
Everyday I remove the card from my camera and dump the photos on my computer, then put the card back into the camera for next day. So far just once did I pull out the camera to get the red flash of no card. The reusable card is also on my faux Autumn leaf that gets used each year for accent on mantel.
My DD was painting outside and used a plastic mini quiches container as a mixing pallet. It was left outside and various bugs wandered in and got stuck. The orange paint pot was the most popular…..
Anyhow I used my cloning skills in the app Retouch and made it prettier!! Will put the buggy original in the first comment box in a bit
So here's a stupid story.
Sometime in early May at a regional lake, I found a forgotten reusable water bottle at the bottom of a gear bag. The decision was made to fill it up with lake water, a bit of sediment, and a few rocks and pebbles. The original premise was to create a small, sealed bowl of one of our most frequent dive locations to join a shelf of "nature memorabilia." What better way to memorialize a location than to take a tiny sample of it?
This was...a bit over 6 months ago.
First, there was one small water snail that made its presence known, and it pulled the plug on the plan to pour the contents into a bowl, because that could accidentally crush the snail - and the snail is officially part of that bowl. We thought we're going to let the poor little critter go on the next dive, just empty everything back into the same lake and call it day.
But if you know me, you know I like critters - I built terrarium with garden snails and slugs, as well as moss and other bits that I personally collected while hiking in 2020 (Lockdowns. Cabin fever, you know the deal) and that went on for a couple of years. And if you know me really well, then you know half of my tattoos are in fact critters and mushrooms, and I regularly get down and muddy for an up-close and personal look through the undergrowth. So of course I was pretty interested in this little finding. I had accidentally acquired curiosity...
What would happen if we left this bottle alone?
Well. Apparently the one snail has friends. On the last census, there's over 25 snails of various sizes - some climbing up, some lounging on the pebbles. There's at least two species of aquatic insects acting as an excellent clean up crew. And there's definitely algae. It's sealed, so somehow this a complete ecosystem in its own right.
What effectively looks like a dirty water and a few rocks is in fact self-sustaining and full of life.
As the days get shorter and sunlight gets sparse, now they have their own light source. They get more active and climb up to the surface. They seem to do spectacularly well without any interference. The bottle hasn't been opened.
I have to say, I'm quite fond of it. Of the tenacity of those tiny life forms. Of the fact that this is even a thing.
So yeah...
Recycled cup holders made from old newspapers and other recycled paper pulp products manufactured and molded by means of a mechanized papier-mâché process. The good news is that they are not only recycled but can be ground up and recycled again. For the Looking Close... On Friday challenge "Reusable or Recycled"
Burger King, Orem, Utah.
It takes nearly one hour of walking to reach this wreckage of a DC-3 at the black beach of Sólheimasandur. However, for a special wedding photo, this effort seems to be acceptable.
A real San Francisco treat is Ghirardelli Square is considered one of the first successful adaptive reuse or repurposing projects in the country, has a history that spans more than a century. William Halprin a landscape architect and William Wurster also an architect began in 1962 to ‘recycle’ the one block location of the neglected Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory Complex on the San Francisco Bay Waterfront into a vibrant shopping area. The famous sign which is what I captured on my iPhone while strolling through San Francisco with my sweet west coast damsel was actually turned around by Halprin so that it faces the waterfront. He designed an elaborate stairway to bring visitors up from the waterfront. The last design element of note which now very common but wasn’t in the late 1950’s early 1960’s was Halprin’s concept of an underground garage under the complex which is now very common place in places like the Boston Commons and Philadelphia’s Independence Park. The conservation and repurposing endeavor predated the National Historic Preservations Act of 1966. iPhone 13 Pro wide 5.7 mm. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #iphone13pro @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @apple @kehcamera @mpbcom @visitcalifornia @visitsf @ghirardellisquare
U's (four & a half y-o) teacher was absent & NOT replaced so he stayed home with me. On this pic, he was doing the lacing cards I had made last year, re-using bits of cardboard, and pencils. (and a puncher, obviously !) (Jan. 26th 2009)
Some of you may be wondering why someone would go to all the trouble of creating this Facebook page and network of websites to tell you about water bottles. Here's your answer:
The world is deteriorating, as a result of decisions we have made. Every year, thousands of pounds of trash are deposited in landfills across the United States. However, because of recente advances in technology, more and more of this trash can be diverted away from landfills by simple consumer decisions. The short version: choices you make can save trash from landfills. People are always looking for simple ways they can help, ways they can be part of the movement. It doesn't always have to start with the government. The decisions that we make can add up to have huge impacts. Take water bottles for instance:
It's estimated that the average American drinks 167 bottles of bottled water each year. Simply by using a reUSeable water bottlé, you can help save these 167 bottles from going to the landfill.
So why the funky name? US is capitalized because this movement won't move without the cooperation of US - it's a communal movement. And why is it a water "bottlé"? Well, simply because bottlé is Swiss for "stylish metal container", and what doesn't sound cooler when it's in Swiss?
According to the Oxford Dictionary upcycling is reusing discarded objects or material in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. Birds are masters at this and here a Red-billed Oxpecker is collecting plant fibers from dry elephant dung to use in nest-building. Red-billed Oxpeckers are collective breeders and we saw two of them sorting through the dry dung and flying off with material to a nesting cavity in a tree trunk close-by. Unfortunately the driver of another vehicle decided to drive between us and the birds where they were working next to the road and scared them off so we could not get more images.
Red-billed Oxpeckers also collect the hair of their impala hosts to line their nests. See here.
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
© Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved.
I was pleased to find that the Northern Flickers were going to reuse the nest they built last year. They appear to be more comfortable with my presence than last year, so I'm looking forward to getting some more fun photos here.
I'm fairly sure when I took this shot, the eggs were already laid, for after twenty minutes of quiet waiting, this male's head popped out and stayed out until the missus arrived. Then with a quiet chortle of greeting, they quickly swapped spots. The male flew out before the female landed under the nest.
When I checked on the nest yesterday, I was pleased to hear that the chicks had hatched. When a parent returned and entered the nest hole, the tiniest of chicks squeakings could be heard...begging for first dibs on feeding.
This will be my last upload for awhile...again..., as I'm behind on a great many things...including writing an article for a local magazine. More on that to come. So, until next time, enjoy your week/weekend and thank you so much for all your support, faves and comments. They are always appreciated!
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I've seen a fair few old telephone boxes with defibrillators, but this is the first with a book swap included. Seen in the village of Fotheringay - Peterborough.
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Sophomore Rachel Guida performs acrobatics on the uneven bars last Friday at the Wolstein Center for the NCAA Gymnastics Championships. Guida scored a total of 9.725 on the uneven bars. The Flashes came in sixth place in the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
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