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Shipping Container Transformed into a Giant Camera & Darkroom

Pretty much anything that can be hollowed out and made light-proof can be used as a camera. Just ask Brendan Barry, who’s made a career from transforming ordinary objects like watermelon, ...

Mach 1: Arts & Event Venue Made from a Tangle of Shipping Containers

Scottish artist David Mach is best known for his sculptural installations and surreal collages, but his largest work yet turns a heap of 36 red shipping containers into a new arts and event space ...

Contain Us: Apartment Made Of 140 Shipping Containers

Drivelines Studios is a low-rise residential apartment building in Johannesburg, SA, constructed from 140 re-purposed metal shipping containers. Drivelines Studios is a residential ...

With Amazon on the Scene, Has Shipping Container Housing Gone Too Far?

Shipping containers may seem like a self-contained drag and drop solution for quick and affordable housing, but the process of making them livable is a lot more complicated than that. The premise ...

LightHotel: Mobile Shipping Container Room Fits Underutilized Urban Spaces

Designed for year-round use in the hot humid summers and icy cold winters of Minnesota's Twin Cities, the LightHotel represents an innovative and eco-friendly approach to on-demand ...

Try to Contain Yourself: 12 Shipping Container Projects Play with Modularity

Taking advantage of the affordability, accessibility and modularity of shipping containers, these architectural projects envision radical new ways to expand houses, elevate slums off the streets, ...

Cutting Corners: LOT-EK’s 21-Box Sliced Shipping Container Home in NYC

Rising up from its corner lot like a ship on a wave, this shipping container home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a stunning private residence made from sliced, diced and strategically reassembled ...

Spiky Shipping Container Home Blooms Like a Flower in the Joshua Tree Desert

Since shipping containers are made to be stacked, that’s how they’re usually arranged when reclaimed for architectural projects. It just makes sense, right? They fit together in a certain way. ...

Trainspotting Hotel: Stacked Shipping Containers Overlook the Rail Tracks

The phrase ‘Trainspotting Hotel’ probably doesn’t conjure visions of a cozy, comfortable and safe place to lay your head at night, but this hotel gets its nickname from its location ...

Cargotecture Travel: Shipping Container Hostel Opens in Vietnam

You might not want to live in a shipping container permanently, but now you can test-drive one for a night or two at the affordable, streamlined and modern Ccasa Hostel in Vietnam. Colorful cargo ...

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