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American-Designed Shanghai Pavilion at World Expo Built With Old CD Cases, Rainwater [Video, Slideshow]

New York-based ESI Design, with Chinese firm Atelier FCIZ Architects, constructs a building with used CD cases and rainwater that changes color based on visitors' activity and incorporates thousands of crowd-sourced photographs. Slideshow, video inside.READ»

Extreme Upcycling: Shanghai Corporate Pavilion Is Made Out of Used CD Cases

Upcycling plastic bottles into t-shirts and billboards into backpacks is innovative, to be sure. But Shanghai's Corporate Pavilion takes the upcycling trend to extremes: The entire exterior of the 4,949 square meter structure is ...READ»