Discussion: The Purpose and Attraction of Recycling

Graphic Design Office, Stockholm, 2010; wall constructed with magazines; architects: Elding Oscarson
When Marcel Duchamp used bicycle wheels and pissoirs as works of art, the world was shocked. Things have changed since then, however. What is waste? What is a functional object? What is art? Since 2006, the flagship store of the brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag in Zurich, a 25-metre-high tower, has become a landmark (ill. 14). But 17 years after...
Graphic Design Office, Stockholm, 2010; wall constructed with magazines; architects: Elding Oscarson