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Computer cities: From scrap to skyscraper

By Cian O'Luanaigh

4 January 2011

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Scrap city

(Image: Franco Recchia)

Franco Recchia builds miniature cities out of computer scrap. “In these works of art I mostly utilised heat sinks, RAMs, disk controllers, electronic connectors, chipsets, microprocessors and TV tuners,” he says. “The idea is to give life again to what otherwise is destined to be lost – or worse, thrown away.”

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