Shipping Container Architecture
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While I love what Shigeru Ban did with them, I’ve been a bit cynical about all the structures made up of shipping containers lately. It’s been a real yawn. Perhaps because I associate it with the container full of dead girls on Season II of The Wire. I don’t know. But this photo I saw in Apartment Therapy is changing my mind:
I also love this student housing project in Amsterdam:
When the scale and shape of these containers is used appropriately, the results can be smashing.
- photo one from futurefashion
- photo two from diamond geezer via AT via environmental graffiti
- photo three via tempohousing via environmental graffiti
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October 29th, 2008 at 8:10 am (#)
Sweet, my husband is obsessed with these.
Kate
November 12th, 2008 at 1:40 am (#)
[…] ago. I had totally forgotten about this bizarre find at Jayson Home and Garden. Forget buying that shipping container pre-fab house or that hip vintage Airstream trailer for the backyard; apparently, a sheep shelter caravan is what […]
July 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am (#)
[…] first glance, I thought this might be cargotecture, i.e. a house made of shipping containers, because of the shape of the second floor on the right […]
November 23rd, 2014 at 8:36 pm (#)
These are all great. I had considered transforming one into a home, but now I think I may do a recording studio transformation instead.
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