Providence has its own example: An 11,000-square-foot, three-story office building along Route 10 constructed from 32 brightly colored shipping containers. Dubbed the Box Office, the structure was completed in 2010 and houses about a dozen small businesses. The Hong Kong-flagged Indian Ocean—about as long as the Empire State Building is tall—was delivered to Chinese shipping major China Shipping Container Lines Co., or CSCL, just two months ago. It was en route to Hamburg from the English port of So for all of the complaining that I do about shipping container architecture, a condo sales office is one place where it makes a lot of sense. Because shipping containers are designed to move, and when the sales cycle is over for this Toronto project will get the containers for Heidinger’s home from a local shipping firm. “It’s in no way difficult to source the containers locally,” said Anderson, owner of Abstract Architecture. They are cheap to buy, and they lower the cost of construction For the second time in less than one year, a private residence is being planned in Buffalo's First Ward that will be largely constructed of shipping containers. Architect Michael Anderson from Abstract Architecture has designed the Louisiana Street Do you want to live in a shipping container? What about living next to one? A local business owner has proposed building a home out of two shipping containers on a vacant lot in Covington's west side, spurring debate on whether this is appropriate for a .
And because they are self-contained units, the shipping container farms can open up corners of the urban landscape that would otherwise be off-limits to farming — empty parking lots, alleys behind tall buildings, and spaces under overpasses all become Tiny homes have been the talk of the town for 2015, but 2016 might bring a new housing trend: homes made from shipping containers. The new idea has been a winner overseas, with cargo containers serving as apartments in the Netherlands and as designer homes The Alpod and the G-pod are prefabricated homes the size of a standard shipping container. These are not the drab “prefabs” of the kind put up in Europe after the second world war, nor do they resemble the makeshift offices fashioned from used BOSTON (AP) — Shipping containers have been turned into housing fruits and vegetables in nontraditional spaces such as warehouses, industrial buildings and containers. They're using hydroponics and other longstanding methods to grow plants without .
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Shipping Container Buildings
Shipping Container Buildings
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