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Before covering the pool, Beese used anticorrosion paint to protect the dumpster. He covered the ground in limestone to help secure it. (Source: Stefan Beese) Before covering the pool, Beese used ...

Last summer, when real-estate developer David Belt turned some recycled wood and three Dumpsters into a set of swimming pools next to the Gowanus Canal, he envisioned the place as a makeshift urban ...

Just in time for warm summer weather in NYC, we came across this AWESOME guerrilla design project: swimming pools in Brooklyn — made out of old dumpsters! We’re salivating at the thought of diving ...

Got a spare dumpster lying around? The economy’s down, so maybe the average family of four isn’t throwing as much trash away, filling only three American dumpsters per week instead of four. Whatever ...

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