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 ...
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Sipping Cargo: Starbucks Opens Container Cafe In Taiwan
Starbucks' new double-decker drive thru restaurant and cafe in Taiwan's Hualien Bay Mall was constructed using 29 recycled shipping containers. Starbucks may be known for spelling (and ...
Zig-Zagging Cantilevered Shipping Containers Create a Dynamic Pavilion
Recognizable in their original form, twelve shipping containers form a two-story recreational pavilion for the Chinese city of Shanxi, stacked and set at an angle with the top units cantilevered ...
Containertecture: Shipping Crate-Based Buildings by LOT-EK
Early explorers in the realm of prefab shipping container-based architecture, design studio LOT-EK stacks these steel crates to create everything from compact homes to massive retail complexes. ...
Cardboard Cathedral: Temporary Structure Acts as Placeholder
In 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand was hit with a massive 6.3 magnitude earthquake. Among the city's most heartbreaking losses was the destruction of the iconic 1864 Anglican cathedral. The city ...
Sleeping Around: Pop-Up Hotel in a Shipping Container
Do you want to spend a night on a river bank, a cliff, a meadow or a busy urban street? The 'Sleeping Around' pop-up hotel concept can go virtually anywhere you like, setting up quickly in ...
Temporary Urban Coffee Farm Grows & Sells Bean Brew
Coffee lovers are getting a special treat at this year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival: an urban coffee farm installation made primarily of pallets, which functions as both a temporary coffee ...
Recycled Cargo Container Bridge Spans Environmental Gap
Ariel Sharon Park in Israel is planned to be a stunning ecological retreat in the middle of a densely populated urban area. The site was once an enormous landfill, but today it is being turned ...
Modular Madness: 23 Diverse Deployments of Cargo Containers
Portable, durable, stackable and readily available all over the world, shipping containers are the ideal building blocks for smart structures of practically every variety. Some require just a ...
Conceptual Construction: 14 Improbable Tower Designs
Apartment buildings as thin as blades, towers topped with wind turbines, sky-high viewing platforms that gather energy from visitors' movements: are these unlikely-seeming designs a glimpse at ...
