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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 2007-10-16 10:35:40
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Well, reducing drinking would not have produced building materials either.

posted by wende in phoenix on 2007-10-16 10:50:49
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I would not want to be living in a house made of those during a hurricane.

posted by Cassis on 2007-10-16 11:21:29
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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 2007-10-16 11:26:21
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Something is better than nothing

posted by Lourdes on 2007-10-16 11:29:05
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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 2007-10-16 11:30:57
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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 2007-10-16 12:16:09
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very cool idea. and they don't roll around in the back of the truck. ;)

posted by david l. on 2007-10-16 12:33:51
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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 2007-10-16 12:38:13
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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 2007-10-16 14:01:30
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