Container Urbanism: Reclaimed Pop-Up Structures
When urban populations outgrow the pace of new construction, and suitable homes and offices spaces are difficult to find, what are property hunters to do? Perhaps more of them will start coming ...
Tag: shipping containers
Living In A Box: China’s Shipping Container Apartments
All across China, millions of migrant workers are on the move, looking for jobs and – once they've found them – places to live. At the same time, China's booming economy has generated a vast ...
Cargotecture: 13 Massive Container Architecture Projects
Homes, apartments, offices, emergency shelters – cargo containers are a quick, low-cost, environmentally friendly building block for all of these architectural purposes and more, including ...
High-Rise Hoagies: Ground Zero Shipping Container Eatery
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but a Subway sandwich shop made of shipping containers is helping workers at the World Trade Center building site get their noontime grub on more ...
18 Super Shipping Container Schools, Youth Centers & Hotels
Recycled shipping containers are known to building designers and architects for their low cost and ease of use. They have been used in the construction of homes, housing developments, offices and ...
Work It: 30 Cargo Container Offices, Stores & Businesses
Shipping containers are great for living in, but how about working in one? Given the enormous success of low-cost, environmentally-friendly recycled shipping container homes, some architects and ...
20 Shipping Container Cities, Apartments & Emergency Shelters
Shipping container architecture is one of the biggest (relatively) new things in building these days. With the low cost, environmentally friendliness, and availability of the materials, it's no ...
Crazy Cargo: 30 Steel Shipping Container Home Designs
Steel shipping containers are the temporary homes of countless consumer items being transported all around the world. Items are packed into the cargo containers in their country of origin, then ...
