Constructed from recycled shipping containers, Platoon Kunsthalle is a dynamic space for subculture movements in Seoul. This concept was first introduced almost 10 years ago in Berlin, running diverse culture and communication projects – like street art, graphic design, fashion, video art, programming, music, club culture, political activism etc – in cooperation with an international community of 3,500 creatives from different professions.
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Cordell House: Containers for living
The city of Houston, Texas, has one of the largest most busiest ports in the US, which means tons of shipping containers just waiting to be recycled and transformed into affordable modern homes. The Cordell House is one of those homes, incorporating three steel containers—two 40-foot-long modules and one 20-foot-long unit.
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Casa El Tiemblo – Architects’ James and Mau, for Infinisk
The structure consists of 4 shipping containers reused. A secondary metal frame that serves as structural support for the two containers on the first floor.
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The Quiksilver Pro New York 2011 Shipping Container Structures by RE:BE Design
Stefan Beese of RE:BE Design (that is the same people who brought us the Voodoo Music and Art Festival) was awarded the position of Production Designer for the 2011 Quicksilver NY PRO Surf event. Beese took the obvious approach, fusing Modern Urbanism Architecture with the natural environment and beach culture of surfing.
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Recycled Shipping Container "Glamping" at Beach Resort in Buenos Aires
Alterra is a so-called "glamping" which offers rooms in refurbished shipping containers in the woods of Pinamar, an upscale beach resort 350 kilometers south-east from Buenos Aires.
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Steel shipping containers used in Burk’s Falls, Ontario housing project
Toronto developer InvestorCentric Inc. is using steel shipping containers as the basis for two buildings that will form part of a three-phase rental housing complex in Burk’s Falls, about 90 kilometres south of North Bay.
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Starbucks Now Served in a Cargo Container
You've heard the popular refrain that Starbucks is everywhere. There may be some truth to that -- the massive coffee retailer has even set up shop in a shipping container.
The now-one-of-a-kind drive-thru/walk-up Starbucks outlet off Interstate 5 in Tukwila, WA, which opened Dec. 13, is constructed from four modified shipping containers, including one 20-foot container and three 40-foot containers
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Inspiration: Cargo Containers in Office
Cargo containers are legitimately one of the most important inventions in the world. For years they have been using their standard size and shape to help make shipping easier, but who’d have known they would one day be used as a non-standard design element in office design?
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Affordable Shipping Container House in Quebec
Shipping containers are at the forefront of a new era of usefulness. Traditionally used to carry goods via cargo ship, train or truck, these steel boxes are capable of withstanding huge amounts of pressure and weight. This makes them structurally stable, fireproof, mold-proof and weather-proof. Unfortunately each has a lifespan of only 20 years for its original purpose. That means when their work is done hauling stuff, they get retired and sent to junk yards or landfills even though they are still structurally solid. Now architects and designers recognize their usefulness as building blocks for homes, offices, apartments, schools and more.
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