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    Posted: 31-Jan-2013 at 20:06
Majestic: A Las Vegas-area construction craftsman designed the Morrow Royal Pavilion - a 30,000-square-foot building made up of 500,000 glass bottles
Normally, the typical "bottle house" would be a small single-story building like the one in Rhyolite, but this guy has built his own palace out of 500000 beer bottles. It's not quite the same as using the bottles as bricks, but concrete made from crushed glass is still better than allowing them to go into landfill:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271076/Welcome-house-booze-Worlds-largest-building-500-000-recycled-BEER-BOTTLES-discarded-casinos-Vegas-strip.html
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  Quote Azita Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Feb-2013 at 07:23
Thats excellent!

my first thought was the bright Nevada sun twinkling off the glass fragments, but on reading  the article the glass seems to be ground "back" into sand. Makes sense to do this more.

non the less very nice stone. I like the gym....

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If the bottles were ground into sand and made into concrete, then this isn't a "bottle house" - it's just a house built of recycled materials.

THIS is a bottle house.


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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Feb-2013 at 13:55
Originally posted by Mountain Man

If the bottles were ground into sand and made into concrete, then this isn't a "bottle house" - it's just a house built of recycled materials.

THIS is a bottle house.




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  Quote TheAlaniDragonRising Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Feb-2013 at 22:57
How about the construction of this small bottle house village in Prince Edward Island, Canada.


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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-Feb-2013 at 08:18
Originally posted by Mountain Man

If the bottles were ground into sand and made into concrete, then this isn't a "bottle house" - it's just a house built of recycled materials.

THIS is a bottle house.



Mountainman, is that the house from Rhyolite ghost town?
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-Feb-2013 at 14:22
It's from Rhyolite, but given the flowers in the window, a guy sitting outside and a pickup truck and mobile home visible in the background I wouldn't call it a ghost town.
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2013 at 08:37

Another bottle house from Calico. I think the Americans call this type of building a shotgun house as the front and back doors are parallel to each other
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Kaleva botttle house in Michigan, now a museum
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Bottle chapel
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Feb-2013 at 09:24
http://cobcottagegifts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/beer-bottle-temple-3.jpg
This Buddhist temple in Thailand puts the American bottle chapel to shame. Everything is made of empty beer bottles, even the floors
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Are such constructions dangerous? If they fall down, would it kill people?
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Highly unlikely. These houses will only fall down if they were held together with mud rather than concrete
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  Quote Centrix Vigilis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-Mar-2013 at 15:00
 
Beer cans.
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