Expo Center Made From 1.5 Million Plastic Bottles

A Taiwanese company has commissioned a 3 story expo center in Taipei made out of 1.5 million recycled PET plastic water bottles. The $4.6M building will be fully permanent and earthquake resistant. It is 426 ft. long and 85 ft wide.

The Ecoark, as it will be called, includes a museum space, an amphitheater, and a screen of falling water collected from rain that will also work as an air conditioner. The first event held in the space will be a fashion show held in November.

The idea came to engineers at Miniwiz Sustainable Energy, who worked on the project while looking at the trash cans at the company office. "We noticed that in our office most of our trash that we have are actually PET bottles because all our engineers love drinking bottled," said Arthur Huang, the director of the company.

While we think these engineers need to slow down on the bottled water drinking, this is absolutely brilliant.

You can see more footage of the building here.