The Great Las Vegas Beer Bottle Palace By Adam Siskind

1. The Great Las Vegas Beer Bottle
Palace
By Adam Siskind

2. Las Vegas now boasts the
world’s largest structure made from recycled
beer bottles, according to an article in
Inhabitat.com. Known as the Morrow Royal
Pavilion, the building is the brainchild of Scott
McCombs, a Las Vegas entrepreneur.

3. The 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility
took shape from more than half a million beer
bottles that were crushed and reformulated into
a composite known as GreenStone. The
construction project saved the equivalent of
eight football fields—piled to the top of the goal
post—of landfill space. Nearly every element of
the building contains some glass.

4. To create the GreenStone composite, a local
design firm collects beer bottles from Las
Vegas Strip hotels. Powerful machines then
crush the glass into miniscule grains, which are
then mixed with fly ash, a byproduct of coal
power plants. The mixture then dries and
hardens in a special mold. GreenStone may be
employed to construct a wide variety of building
elements, including columns, mantles,
fireplaces, and balustrades.

5. About Adam Siskind: A graduate of the New
York University Stern School of Business,
Adam Siskind heads Playback Clothing, a
fashion firm that uses recycled beer bottles to
create eco-friendly t-shirts and sweatshirts.

6. About Adam Siskind: A graduate of the New
York University Stern School of Business,
Adam Siskind heads Playback Clothing, a
fashion firm that uses recycled beer bottles to
create eco-friendly t-shirts and sweatshirts.