Container Houses Go Urban

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Dwellings fashioned out of used intermodal shipping containers continue to spread into new places. Should they? Read more →

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Danish Container Home Keeps Modular Secrets Hidden

Artist's concept of completed WorldFlexHome, with green roof and wall. Image via WorldFlexHome.

Danish firm WorldFlexHome has created an energy-efficient, modular shipping container home that betrays none of the industrial boxiness seen in other container projects. Read more →

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Pop-Up Office Touches Most Adaptive Reuse Bases

Dubbeldam Architecture turned heads at the Toronto Interior Design Show with its modular and trendy Pop-Up Office. Image by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design via Designboom.

Canadian designers fell just short of Green Building Trend Nirvana with this modular office/tiny structure that reuses not only wooden pallets by shipping containers as well. Read more →

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Boxman Can’t Contain Enthusiasm For Containers

An example of Boxman Studios' design for an urban built environment using refurbished containers. Image by Cluck Design Collaborative via Boxman Studios.

Boxman, a North Carolina firm that specializes in modifying shipping containers for the events industry, has launched a division focusing on the adaptive reuse of containers in permanent structures. Read more →

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Containers Opened Up At Shanghai Organic Farm

Image by Bartosz Kolonko via Playze

A visitor center made out of 78 shipping containers at a Shanghai organic farm is turning heads for its good looks as well as its green building chops. Read more →

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Upcycling Motown-Style With Containerized Condos

Artist's rendering via Steven C. Flum, Inc.

A new multifamily development being planned for the Detroit area may change a few opinions on the spartan, post-industrial nature of containerized living spaces. Read more →

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Innovative Container Designs Redefine ‘Box’

Image via Au Coeur de L'ile Seguin

In celebration of Boxing Day, here are a few blue-collar examples of how reused shipping containers can add to the aesthetics of a site as well as to the environmental bottom line. Read more →

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Stay In This Awesome Shipping Container Home In Spain

Angel Shipping Container Home, Majorca

For around $113, you can stay in a one-bedroom, one-bath home made out of shipping containers in Marjorca that comes complete with a pool and Zen garden. Read more →

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A Shipping Container Learning Lab To Launch African Kids

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The Launchpad learning lab -- designed pro bono by Perkins + Will -- makes use of a recycled shipping container to provide high-tech mentoring for African kids. Read more →

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The Shipping Container Home At Home In The Woods

Six Oaks, Modulus

Despite its boxy shape, this smart, sleek recycled shipping container home in the forested mountains outside Santa Cruz is entirely at home in the woods. Read more →

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