Shipping Container Home

Millions of empty shipping containers sit just waiting to be used for other purposes. Architects are turning them into utilitarian masterpieces. Take a dozen shipping containers, stack 'em, add floor-to-ceiling windows and you get this huge 4,000 square You wouldn't guess it from the outside, but a nondescript shipping container lodged in a Kingston Seymour field has been home to a host of national and international recording projects. Placed just minutes from Kingston Seymour's peaceful fishing lakes and Four shipping containers arranged in a square and suspended from the ceiling house displays of merchandise at this clothing shop in the Argentinian city of La Plata. The shop for fashion brand Le Utthe was designed by Buenos Aires studio BBC Arquitectos The building was later a home, and during the 1920s it operated as a French which blended old and new architecture. Using shipping containers for shops and eateries isn't entirely new, but it's gaining popularity. Last month, the Yard at Mission Shipping containers are set to be rented out to students in a bid to solve Sweden's chronic housing shortage. The Local has spoken to the company behind them - and to one council feeling the housing strain. 65 mobile homes are currently being built in SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — They transport goods and are typically seen on boats and trains, but one Sacramento architect wants to have people call shipping containers home. He’s hoping the city will get behind a mixed-use project built solely with the giant .

The shipping container unit is the most beautiful home Marnie Crassweller has ever lived in. The Vancouver resident has been asked many times what it's like "living in a can," but most of the time, she says, she forgets about it. "It's got floor-to-ceiling Shipping Container architecture is “taking the world by storm,” according to Popular Mechanics. Tiny homes are extremely popular with off the grid enthusiasts and folks seeking an affordable way to construct a vacation or retirement oasis. Recycling "What," I ask you, "could possibly be better than a shipping container that's been converted into a house?" "Nothing," you say. "There's nothing better. Nothing at all. Not even iPad mini" "I know," I nod with smug condescension bordering on the zen-like Here's a few recent North American projects where the shipping container takes center stage: Built and designed by HyBrid Architecture as the Sunset magazine Idea House 2011, this 192-square-foot solar-powered backyard container cottage is not even half .