For the past couple of months we've been working on a fantastic bottle project and looking into design principals to eliminate the "disposable" part of the disposable bottle industry, not necessary...We're not usually ones for promoting beverage companies, especially alcoholic brands, but this particular find is such a great example of multi-use and anti-disposable,,, that we just had to share it...
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be
useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. It puts every other bottle building we have shown to shame and its enough to drive seasoned drinkers to the... temple...
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| From Bottle to Building Block... Blind... |
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| Even the washrooms and the crematorium are built of bottles, a mix of green Heineken and brown local Chang beer. |
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| 800 & 88,000,,, 800 & 81..... or was it 82..? Start again... |
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| What..? I said INTRICATE detail..! |
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| Arty mirror shot from through the bottle gap.. |
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| I said, INTRICATE roof line detail... Hiccup... |
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| Buddhist Monks hmm... I do need a trim... |
We've all seen bottle buildings before, but this surely takes sustainability to another level... I wonder who the architect was..?
No wonder Buddha always had a smile on his fat little face,,, sustainability make you happy..
Peace
Who drank all the beer?
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