In this high speed, hyperconnected world in which we move there are, ironically, ever fewer opportunities to make random connections and to have abstract conversations with strangers. Where once a bus or a train journey was an opportunity to meet complete strangers and talk about our worlds, almost everyone dives into their smartphone or tablet…
Sometimes an area of astounding natural beauty with minimal human settlement demands exquisite architecture to both compliment and enhance the natural environment. The Devil’s Corner Cellar Door for the Brown Brothers winery in Apslawn, Tasmania does just this. The one-storey main building is composed of a series of repurposed shipping containers with a lookout tower connected to…
Most people would agree that there is a lot of manure written on the internet, and for a change at Gateway Container Sales we will write some – right here in this blog. No, we aren’t going to jabber on about the Rothschild building a shipping container Martian moon base to escape to after they…
A company has developed a remote control, fold out shipping container workspace or home. This tackles many of the issues and limitations surrounding single unit shipping containers. Looking at a shipping container home, even with a 40ft (2 TEU) container the dimensions are fairly limiting. They are narrow yet long and even with the broad imagination…
You might be moving home or renovating and need somewhere secure and safe to keep your belongings during the disruption. So why not hire a shipping container for a few weeks or months? For a low price you can rent a container that suits your needs. Here are 5 reasons you should consider hiring a…
That a shipping container is a metal box shouldn’t deter you from designing and building a container home in a hot environment – many people, have done this very successfully! We will look at some ideas that work, and some that don’t in this piece. They include using your garden to shade you, as well as…
As more and more people become concerned with emergency preparedness, shipping containers present an interesting use case as “bug out shelters.” The idea of a bug out shelter stems from the concept of nuclear “fallout shelters.” At its core, it’s essentially a backup location, where someone can temporarily retreat to for protection from natural or…
Shipping containers have an almost endless array of uses after they have travelled the world delivering goods. One of the most recent uses has been as schools and classrooms – whether as an IT suite at an orphanage in Africa, a classroom space in a UK state school or a whole private school in fashionable Orange…
If you’ve been watching the news recently you will have seen the huge refugee crisis that has hit Europe as millions of people have escaped war torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa for safety. This has led to boom time for one industry – the shipping container conversion industry – which has…
Shipping containers have a number of features that make them extremely good shelters and laboratories for scientists working in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. They can be converted to their end use in a factory environment. This means a whole research station can be built in a factory in somewhere like Australia or South Africa,…