Two brothers, their father and a mate put together a shipping container house overlooking the Surf Coast at Kennet River in Victoria. The house is now on the market for a cool $1.1 million.
In this blog we ask the question: What’s the difference between commercial and residential cargotecture design and development?
A luxury home in Davie, South Florida is being built of shipping containers and the architect-owner believes it should only cost US$250,000 to build.
Regan Foster was off work due to injury as a firefighter in Denver, Colorado when he hit on an idea: why not build himself a large new house out of shipping containers? The results were so good he quit his day job and became a building General Contractor. Regan Foster container residence The home isn’t…
A new shipping container home has been built for a family looking for a suburban escape in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. Dhaka floods Dhaka, like much of the country, is on the lowlands and is frequently hit by floods, even at the early stages of Climate Change. This has created a substrate on which…
The South African city of Johannesburg has the world’s biggest inland port where container based traffic travels across Africa and onward to the rest of the world. Why not then celebrate this with a seven storey working / living complex made of up-cycled shipping containers? Drivelines Studios Designed and engineered by US Naples based LOT-EK…
As it charges forward to its target capacity of 8 million TEU capacity, the Port of Melbourne has broken an Australian record in the last year, handling 3.018 million TEUs of shipping containers. Will the locals let it reach higher? What are TEUs? Twenty-foot Equivalent Units are the units by which containers are measured. They…
Imagine walking off a busy street in Chicago, into a box and instantly into the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When the door closes behind you, so you are surrounded by a different world… After a breathtaking tour of this jewel of the Southern Hemisphere, you step back into reality and into another box to…
Just 157km north of Sydney, the Running Horse Wines is a shipping container cellar door that helps visitors celebrate the astounding landscape in which the vines grow, as well as enjoying the wines themselves. Vineyard owner David Fromberg started out as a jockey but as the years went on found it harder and harder to…
In the face of declining coal exports from the port, the NSW Port of Newcastle has announced plans to open a new 2 million TEU container terminal. It had problems at the outset as the NSW government had a legal agreement with the two Sydney based container ports to charge the Port of Newcastle for…