Even the spy agencies of the world can find a use for shipping containers! On display at the London Science Museum in the UK is an example of a forward operating base for the UK’s communications and cyber spies.
We look at why the Hermosa Airbnb container home in Marfa, Texas sits perfectly in its natural desert environment of cacti and tumbleweeds.
Solid Coffee takes the leap into the Steelcraft entertainment complex in Bellflower, CA. The new outlet is inside a 20ft repurposed shipping container from which they serve their caffeinated concoctions.
STACK container shopping & leisure facility planned for the former English shipbuilding city of Sunderland; one of the hidden jewels of the UK coast.
A new shipping container-based social housing development is being built in Aylesbury, UK for those on low incomes in the area.
Bristol University is reaching out to people in a deprived area of the city with plans for a shipping container-based campus to help them access education.
An experimental Indian shipping container home called The Orange Box Project has been built to explore sustainable and climate-friendly architecture.
UK company Boxpark, one of the first shipping container-based leisure complexes in the world, has recently announced plans to aggressively expand its business across the country.
Showing just how fashionable shipping containers are, String Bean Alley in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market has 26 container market stalls.
A new development of ‘affordable’ shipping container housing is being built in a popular district of Nashville, Tennessee.