RickMcCharles.com

art … what art

construct an island out of plastic debris

with 2 comments

TreeHugger readers will know of the Pacific Gyre, the “island of garbage twice the size of Texas” slowly spinning in the ocean. Like everything in life, it can be seen as a serious problem, or an opportunity. Michael Barton, in his graduating thesis at the University of British Columbia, proposes to gather it together for “the construction of a synthetic land commodity.” He won an award of Excellence from in the Annual Canadian Architect Awards for “The Enthalpy of Empty Space.” …

TreeHugger

barton-island

Good idea.

Written by rickmc

January 7, 2009 at 12:03 am

Posted in good news

2 Responses

Subscribe to comments with RSS.

  1. Can’t wait to read the Legal Studies dissertation coming out soon on how to deal with littering in the new “synthetic land commodity”.

    Brian

    January 7, 2009 at 12:15 am

  2. Isn’t Las Vegas made out of plastic debris?

    Dana

    January 7, 2009 at 11:26 am


Leave a Reply