At Argentina beer-bottle house, let's hope builder wasn't drinking on the job
Mar 5, 2010 5:50 PM
Everyone's passed the time on an interminably long road trip crooning "99 Bottles of Beer." For the project Tito Ingenieri undertook in Quilmes, Argentina, the song comes up 5,999,901 bottles too short.
As you can see in the video (right), the industrious, ingenious Ingenieri spent 19 years building a home out of 6 million bottles of beer and other drinks and pieces of scrap iron he found on the streets of Quilmes or got from others. Ingenieri says his beer-bottle abode "actually belongs to the people of Quilmes, who helped by donating the bottles." Perhaps it's apt that Quilmes is a major brewer in Argentina.
Some people, according to Ingenieri, call the house green since so many bottles were taken off the streets in Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires. He also notes that the house acts as a weather vane since the wind whistling through the bottles' exposed necks alerts him to approaching storms.
The house is among the most unusual we've seen, but just think of all the bottle deposits Ingenieri passed up.
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As you can see in the video (right), the industrious, ingenious Ingenieri spent 19 years building a home out of 6 million bottles of beer and other drinks and pieces of scrap iron he found on the streets of Quilmes or got from others. Ingenieri says his beer-bottle abode "actually belongs to the people of Quilmes, who helped by donating the bottles." Perhaps it's apt that Quilmes is a major brewer in Argentina.
Some people, according to Ingenieri, call the house green since so many bottles were taken off the streets in Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires. He also notes that the house acts as a weather vane since the wind whistling through the bottles' exposed necks alerts him to approaching storms.
The house is among the most unusual we've seen, but just think of all the bottle deposits Ingenieri passed up.
Essential information: Our SiteSeeing reviews of How Can I Recycle This? and Instructables.com reveal other creative ways to recycle everyday objects.
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