Ghent's €20 million design museum built from recycled construction waste
Reported bythe Guardian ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
The new Design Museum Gent, designed by Carmody Groarke with local firms, was built using 82,000 bricks derived from the city's condemned concrete frames, windows, car windscreens, sinks and toilets. The €20 million building incorporates biomaterials including tiles made of seaweed, flax, wood terrazzo and volcanic ash, with interior surfaces of local clay and rubble from the building site.
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