All over the world people are winding up their work and starting to overindulge on food and booze for the Christmas party season. Why not? Tis the season to be jolly! For many Down Under their plans will centre around a beach and hopefully a bar close by to lubricate the atmosphere… The best bars…
The TV show Grand Designs started in the UK in 1999, and has been syndicated around the world. The TV show looks at novel and exciting self-build projects from a woodsman’s cruck framed and straw bale house at one extreme, to mighty mansions at the other. In the UK it has a cult following as…
Nearly one in ten people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water – that is 783 million people. Global warming is adding to the problem with rising sea levels meaning salt water can reach into previously safe water supplies, while increasingly violent storms wash impurities into water supplies. One solution to…
Last week Gateway Gazette showed how China is developing a nuclear power plant that is so small that it can fit in a 40ft shipping container. Whereas this makes some people feel uneasy for a variety of reasons, this week’s shipping container power generation is somewhat better for the environment and regional stability – portable…
Here at Gateway Gazette we have looked at some pretty amazing things that have been made using shipping containers from eco friendly farms, to million dollar mansions. Now China is developing a nuclear power plant that can fit inside a shipping container and could contribute to a change in the balance of power in the…
Here at Gateway Gazette we often look at shipping container home conversions, but now for something a little different – shipping container shops. As with their housing equivalent, shipping container conversion shops benefit from their low initial cost and that they can be shifted from place to place. In some cases, for the new shop…
Would you live in a shipping container home to avoid a six figure mortgage? One architect has designed a kit home in Brighton, England where instead of paying over half a million Australian dollars, you can own your own home for a fraction of the price. Knock on effects of London house price bubble House…
Could shipping container housing be a solution to house indigenous peoples on their lands and reserves? Millions of people are in unsuitable housing, and as we have discussed on the Gateway Gazette before, converted shipping container housing is a cheap yet comfortable solution for a whole range of housing needs. One tribe in Canada has…
Shipping containers may well be the answer for city planners who seek to create a more mixed society in their urban areas. Containers can be converted into accommodation cheaply and set onto site in a fraction of the time that their bricks and mortar equivalent can be, and as such can bring the investment in…
One of the drawbacks of shipping containers is that while they are portable, up to now they have required heavy lifting equipment and large trucks to move them any greater distance than around your backyard. Containers are lauded for their portability but you generally need quite a bit of kit to do it! There are…