Californian Couple Follows Australian Container Homes Trend
A Californian couple have built a new container home having seen them here in Australia. We reflect on the Aussie construction trend that inspired them.
Farm Stores Move Into Cargotecture
U.S. bakery and dairy chain Farm Stores has started expansion plans, with some 65 drive-thru shipping container units to be built all up the East Coast.
Affordable Rent Container Development in Boise, Idaho
A new shipping container housing development in Boise, Idaho repurposes 3 shipping containers to create 4 brm homes for low-income residents.
Could Container Architecture Make Pachacutec Great Again?
Indian architectural design company TRS Studios has undertaken a social project for homes in Pachacutec, Peru based on shipping container architecture.
Affordable Housing in Shipping Container Apartment Complexes
Affordable, decent housing is needed in city centres like New York, Sydney, London and Los Angeles. A solution may well be found in shipping container apartment complexes.
New Links Old With Norwich Container Mall
A shipping container mall, firmly rooted in the new Millennium, is being warmly welcomed in Norwich, a UK city that has 1000+ years of history.
Shipping Container Homes Causing a Buzz Among Sydney Self-builders
Land prices are hitting $1,000 a square metre in Sydney and house prices are just getting obscene, so Sydneysiders are increasingly turning to container homes as a solution to the problem of getting somewhere decent to live. Land prices Business Insider Australia reported last year, “the median vacant residential lot price surged by 6.5% in…
Shipping Containers Enable a Career Change From Firefighter to Architect
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 Lightweight Chill Out Container Home in Dhaka
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…
Drivelines Studios 7 Storey Shipping Container Complex in Johannesburg
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…