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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?

posted by shani-o on October 16th 2007 at 5:35am
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Well, reducing drinking would not have produced building materials either.

posted by wende in the twin cities on October 16th 2007 at 5:50am
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I would not want to be living in a house made of those during a hurricane.

posted by Cassis on October 16th 2007 at 6:21am
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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!

posted by Aulaire on October 16th 2007 at 6:26am
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Something is better than nothing

posted by Lourdes on October 16th 2007 at 6:29am
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I'll bet even the non-drinkers looked hungover with the green tones being cast through that glass.

posted by robyn on October 16th 2007 at 6:30am
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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.

posted by loislane on October 16th 2007 at 7:16am
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very cool idea. and they don't roll around in the back of the truck. ;)

posted by david l. on October 16th 2007 at 7:33am
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Awesome! But I can't help but think of the saying, "those who live in glass houses..."

posted by mplsjacob on October 16th 2007 at 7:38am
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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.

posted by Alana in Canada on October 16th 2007 at 9:01am
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