Recycling for architecture

Patagonia's offices are made out of reused materials and aiming to be off the grid. Tru Yoga is a green space in the consumption-friendly city of LA. Lot-ek recently submitted an idea to use old airplanes fuselages for the interior structure of a library in Mexico.

I was listening to Lee Iacocca on NPR go on about how Detroit is in the past and how he see the future on electric/fuel combo cars. When asked what got him to this POV, he said it was paying 8 bucks to see a PowerPoint on the big screen. I've seen the Al Gore phonemenah with my friends and with strangers. More people are freaked out by the end of the world. And it's becoming hip to care. Same Underneath is pushing green clothes onto trendy people while Delta and major airline brokers are backing carbon neutral flights. But back to buildings ...

Even with all the old building abandoned buildings in cities, it's still not hard to justify building new ones. Maybe location is not right, or layout, or construction, or parking. Like BP's green gas station, recycling materials for new buildings is "a little better." Not as good as moving back to the city.