Simple Shipping Container Home In Africa.

March 6, 2012
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Simple Shipping Container Home In Africa.

When designing or even building shipping container homes often being practical is overlooked. This shipping container home obviously does what the owner needs but also its ideal for the terrain and country that it resides in. DaveGoesToAfrica has some interesting posts but from a shipping container point of view I could easily see these...

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Rooftop Hydroponic Garden In New York

March 5, 2012
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Rooftop Hydroponic Garden In New York

  Fresh produce is always the game of the day in a quality restaurant and New York restaurateur John Mooney has taken the concept to a modern dimension. The introduction of a rooftop hydroponic garden. This allows food being served at Bell, Book and Candle to have a large portion of its daily produce...

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Gorman ShipShop by The Next Architects

March 3, 2012
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Gorman ShipShop by The Next Architects

The concept is simple by the introduction of retail units that are highly mobile, ideal for temporary or temp/permanent locations the units can be dropped used then moved. Good for the exhibition circuit as well as conferences and general promotional outlets. I could see these having many uses especially for new shopping developments as...

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Sugoroku Office by Daiken-Met Architects

March 3, 2012
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Sugoroku Office by Daiken-Met Architects

The Sugoroku Office designed for and by the Daiken-Met Architecture firm located in Gifu, Japan has some typically Japanese features at the same time innovative and modern. Internally sleek and well thought out while the outside I can’t help feeling its half finished. The orange barriers are typical of temporary warning barriers and the...

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Shipping Container Art Gallery In Oslo, Norway

February 25, 2012
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Shipping Container Art Gallery In Oslo, Norway

A Shipping Container Gallery based in Oslo by MMW for Alexandra Dyvi not only is a cheap method of construction but also extremely environmental when using recycled materials especially if the containers themselves in this case are near their final destination. But also the containers themselves are in keeping with a dockside look.  ...

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Vertical Shipping Container Home?

February 25, 2012
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Vertical Shipping Container Home?

Its an idea I have been thinking about for sometime, I find people’s first complaint about shipping container homes as a “concept” is that they are simply too small to be viable. I totally disagree as it all depends on peoples lifestyles but also its very likely they have lived in a smaller space...

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Cost Of A Shipping Container In The Philippines

February 15, 2012
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Not sure if other countries suffer with the same but if you don’t want a shipping container they seem to be around P60,000 and as soon as you do they can be as high as P140,000. Question is why are they so expensive? In reality I believe its to do with a lack of...

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Shipping Container Home Built with 8 containers – patrick partouche: maison container lille

February 11, 2012
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Shipping Container Home Built with 8 containers – patrick partouche: maison container lille

French architect patrick partouche has recently completed ‘maison container lille’, a single family residence created from eight shipping containers within the countryside of lille, france. the stacked units combine to generate 208 square meters of living space. The building itself has not shyed away from its container roots but look to enhance and utilise...

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Shipping Container Home – “all-season suite,”

February 8, 2012
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Shipping Container Home – “all-season suite,”

One of the problems with building codes in regards to shipping container homes is that there are specific “minimum” room sizes for many things. But like everything there is always a way round it although hoping more and more local government and planning officers start to recognise the viability of shipping container homes. The...

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Garden Shipping Container Retreat

February 8, 2012
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Garden Shipping Container Retreat

Mike Corvi from Portland Oregon purchased a used shipping container for $2,900. He utilised a local builder with a few friends to convert the shipping container into an outdoor retreat in his back garden within 6 weeks. $8,000 later the shipping container was finished, but that isn’t where it stopped as Mike enjoyed doing...

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Less Means More Living In Smaller Spaces.

February 5, 2012
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Someone posted this link to me today regarding how someone downsized their life. The fact is in the last 50 years Americans (and no doubt many other nations) now occupy more than 3 times the amount of space they did before. Add to that the rising number of “drive in storage facilities” that are...

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Shipping Container Office and Guest Bedroom in a Loft apartment

February 1, 2012
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Shipping Container Office and Guest Bedroom in a Loft apartment

Initially it seems a bit of a gimmick but when you start looking at the work that has gone into the shipping container as well as some interesting ideas such as the wind up bed it does seem rather well thought out.Jeff Wardell and Claudia Sagan are a pair of travel-loving art collectors which...

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Container Gardening – SNAP Hydroponics From The Philippines

February 1, 2012
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Container Gardening – SNAP Hydroponics From The Philippines

SNAP Hydroponics is something that has been developed in the Philippines for sustainable living and livelihood. What makes it a little unique compared to most hydroponics setups is that it doesn’t need any electricity which is a huge difference in money cost for production. Obviously the Philippines climate is a country receiving 12 hours...

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Beautiful Houseboat In Vancouver

January 25, 2012
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Beautiful Houseboat In Vancouver

Vancouver Marina is the home of todays floating house, owned by Doug McClelland and Anthony Tucker they decided to position they’re newly constructed boat house alongside some amazing yachts and boats of the rich and famous. The new home stands out as the most modern and newest of additions to the marina but also...

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Shipping Container School Expansion (Video)

January 25, 2012
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I enjoy this video as its a short clip showing the basic stacked shipping containers shortly before they start coating them on the exterior and interior to the finished building where it become difficult to even identify they were constructed from shipping containers. Bearing in mind 80% of the extension is built using recycled...

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