Brunswick Students Build Container Homes for U.S. Veterans
In Georgia, U.S. students from a technical college have set to work building a two bedroom shipping container home for homeless veterans in their hometown of Brunswick.
Arizona State University Delivers Containerised Medical Centre to Uganda Refugee Camp
Arizona State University has developed a shipping container medical centre that provides clean water and sterile medical facilities to a South Sundanese refugee camp in Uganda.
How a Shipping Container Hobby Build Could Make $1 Million
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.
How Commercial and Residential Container Developments Differ
In this blog we ask the question: What’s the difference between commercial and residential cargotecture design and development?
Luxury Home For Only $250K? Must Be Shipping Containers…
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.
Starbucks Shipping Container Cafes
World famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built many Starbucks around Asia. His latest offering is in Taiwan, comprising 29 x 40ft shipping containers over two floors.
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…
Air New Zealand Teleports People By Shipping Container?
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…
What’s Life Like in a Container Home?
So what can life be like living in a shipping container home? The truth is that if the place is well thought out – and money spent on making it comfortable – then it can be a good space to live in. Rather like any other architecture, it can be jolly uncomfortable and a difficult…
Sydney National Museum ‘Container’ Exhibition Goes on Tour
Did you know that 99% of trade into and out of Australia comes by shipping container? Celebrating this, the National Maritime Museum has sent its ‘Container’, shipping container exhibition on tour around the country after its initial spell at the Sydney National Maritime Museum. People in Wollongong can now pay a visit to the six,…