
History of Forward-Thinking. These Heineken beer bottles were created in 1963 by brewer Alfred Heineken and architect John Habraken specifically for re-use as bricks in Caribbean communities that lacked adequate building materials (but had an excess of discarded beer bottles). We'll drink to that! Via: Inhabitat...

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So the best way to solve a problem is by adding to it?
Well, reducing drinking would not have produced building materials either.
I would not want to be living in a house made of those during a hurricane.
I'll bet the light inside is gorgeous.
Cassis--you probably wouldn't want to be on a Carribean island in a hurricane, period--but I'd rather be in a house of glass brick and mortar than in, say, a tin shack glued together with spit in Port au Prince!
Something is better than nothing
I'll bet even the non-drinkers looked hungover with the green tones being cast through that glass.
i think it's an awesome idea. i'd like to see more manufacturers of all types of products be even a fraction as creative. beats the heck out of those &^@!! hard clamshell plastic packages everyone seems so keen on.
very cool idea. and they don't roll around in the back of the truck. ;)
Awesome! But I can't help but think of the saying, "those who live in glass houses..."
Interesting. Long, long time ago, when I was too young to take an interest in such things, I did notice that some houses on a particular Carribbean island had glass bottles set into concrete. (The Island did have a concrete making plant. The rich didn't have any bottles set into their houses though.) So, this is where that came from.