Shipping Container Architecture
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Becky // 3 Comments »
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
Filed in Architecture | 3 Comments
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 [...]