As you read this, more than 20 million shipping containers are plying the world’s oceans. We see them everywhere, whether as rusting storage sheds, beautiful mansions or on the highways and motorways of the world as they go from customer to seaport. Less than a lifetime ago, shipping containers were only a concept, yet due…
Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk said in late 2016, there are two ‘fundamental paths’ humanity can take: “One is that we stay on Earth forever and then there will be an inevitable extinction event,” he said. “The alternative is to become a spacefaring civilisation, and a multi-planetary species.” Musk has taken the first step…
Shipping container architecture has a number of great benefits that can result in a high quality building fitted out to top standards and built in very little time indeed. The Holiday Inn chain recognised this and built a 220 room Holiday Inn Express beside an exhibition and entertainment venue in Manchester, England, that was due to…
Whatever you think of the United States projecting their strength around the world, they sometimes come up with some pretty cool gadgets to make this happen. The US military research lab DARPA’s newest toy is the SideArm, a launching and recovery system for unmanned drones, that fits inside the footprint of a 20ft shipping container…
Shipping containers are used in a variety of ways according to their strengths. In many cases, it comes down to the fact that they are a portable space, and this means that they can be repurposed into classrooms. They are secure as well, meaning that while moving the classroom around, organisations using them can keep…
Emitting a tonne of carbon for every tonne made, cement manufacture is one of the biggest single contributors to manmade global warming with an estimated 5% of manmade emissions coming from it. Scientists in the US have come upon a natural way of creating a form of cement using bacteria. Dirty cement Cement is used…
The sea is a draw to many an artist, both visual and those of the written word. One only needs to imagine the infinite emptiness of unchanging horizons for days on end as a vessel crosses the Pacific from China, to the US, or the mood changes from placid calm, to brutal rage as the…
Earlier this year a London architectural company called Studioshaw won a design competition to construct a multi-use facility for young people that will be built of shipping containers. The site will be in Dundee, Scotland and is designed to support the town’s growing computer game production industry which is seeing a major boom as creatives move…
With up to one million children living on the streets of India’s cities who have to work to help their families make ends meet, many hit a poverty trap long before they even get to adulthood. Unable to get an education they cannot get the skills to break free of poverty for the rest of…
Austin, Texas based public artist Colin McIntyre has developed a new installation in the Dimension Gallery involving a wooden pipe organ in a shipping container called the Resonant Lung. Colin McIntyre McIntyre is an Austin based artist who specialises in developing large sculptures. A video of him discussing his work can be seen above. One…