Let’s look at prisons made out of shipping containers. Those who live a crime free life, with their biggest rebellion having three glasses of wine over dinner instead of just one, may think that prisons should be hellholes for people to rot in. There’s a problem with that – people don’t reform in adverse situations….
A Greek company, working in conjunction with a natural fibre mattress manufacturer, has developed a 40ft shipping container home that is energy efficient. Cocoon has the container homes on sale for US$65,000 per unit, though if you wish to have more than one container in your block / blocks you should contact the company to discuss…
The thought of a shipping container classroom might make you think of something austere and industrial – perhaps something for a state school that’s really strapped for cash? The German International School Sydney (GISS) has developed teaching spaces that would make rival schools jealous. This is shipping container repurposing with real style. GISS background The GISS…
When you think of the idea of a ‘shipping container diving platform’ you could think of somewhere from which to scuba dive and to explore the depths… Or as somewhere to jump from. Tombstoning Let’s face it, give a kid a hot day and some water and they’re likely to swim in it to cool…
We’ve touched on some great uses for shipping containers here at the Gateway Gazette. Here’s one of the most purposeful: a lifeboat station in a shipping container. This isn’t some rusty box dragged onto a beach, but is one where the entire lifeboat station and boat are built in the UK and donated to countries…
Here at Gateway Gazette we love the fact that people think outside the box when it comes to shipping containers. Previously we covered a story about portable horizontal axis wind turbines that can fit inside shipping containers. But horizontal axis wind turbines have a lot of issues. A new portable vertical axis wind turbine, the…
A cinema in a shipping container? Tallgrass Film Association (TFA) out of Wichita, Kansas has come up with an innovative way of reaching out to the public. The film association, which runs an annual film festival every year, has a road show that is taken around the towns and cities of Kansas to show movie…
If you go out in the woods today in the US it helps to wear a flak jacket. If you have a hunting lodge it also helps if it can stop bullets entering. While the US is the epicentre of mass shootings due to its gun addiction, many gun users have them to hunt, and…
Here at Gateway Container Sales we love shipping container architecture! Shipping containers are a quick, cheap, effective and environmentally sustainable way of building new homes. Not everyone thinks like us. Councils around the world are the ultimate arbiters of whether you will end up building your shipping container home, and sadly this won’t always happen….
There are plans to build a theatre in Detroit, in the US Midwest, modelled on Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England. It will have many of the foibles and eccentricities of the original theatre that was built nearly 500 years ago in the slums of London, but be built of a far more modern and…