Leigha Covnot Slow Design Principles Water bottle houses In developing countries building supplies can be scarce where trash is abundant. Trash, specifically, millions of plastic water bottles. Designer and architect Robert Bezeau saw this as an opportunity to help people of in Isla Colón. He, with volunteers, filled the plastic bottles with sand then…
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Jaume Plensa’s “The Crown Fountain” in Millenium Park
This is The Crown Fountain in Chicago’s own Millenium park. There are two 50 ft. glass towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. Plensa took pictures of the faces of 1,000 Chicago residents, and they faces are displayed onto the LED screens. There is a water outlet giving the illusion that these faces…