The CO2-absorbing building made of old sinks, windscreens and toilets: Ghent’s £17m design museum is a green marvel

Inspired by a gothic cathedral partly built using human bones, this gleaming monument to recycling boasts 82,000 bricks derived from construction waste – following a two-day brick-making festival Museums often try to reflect the world around them, but rarely are they made so literally of their surroundings as the new design museum in Ghent . Rising above the Belgian city’s medieval tiled rooftops like an angular…