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The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo is being built from recycled CD cases. The polycarbonates and thermoplastics can be heated and reformed, leading the architects to suggest that they melt it all down once their done with it.

There's also a 1600 square metre solar heat-collecting tube on the roof, which will be used to generate electricity and "produce hot water, up to 95 degrees centigrade". As well as an "LED lights and mist making system", which will be used to change the outward appearance of the building.

I'm wondering who's going to be taking all those hot showers.

(via Treehugger)