Tagged shipping containers

Around 226 million shipping containers are sent around the world each year. These are used to transport various goods, some of which are hazardous. Every year about 1,000 will be lost due to storms and conditio...

Tiny homes or mini homes have gained popularity over the past few years. Aside from being economical for most people, these miniature houses can easily exude a modern and minimalist vibe that is trendy among re...

Just four weeks after the launch of CURA, a global open-source initiative aimed to convert shipping containers into plug-in Intensive-Care Pods for COVID-19 patients – the first unit has been built and instal...

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have teamed-up with engineering studio Jacobs and digital studio Squint/Opera to design CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments) with the aim to convert ship...

Crossboundaries’ latest installation is made out of 12 shipping containers and is imagined as a fun inducing manifesto of future schools, where you can experience and imagine little glimpses of its principles...

Aiming to show how is possible to transform shipping containers into a modern and functional house, architect Marilia Pellegrini has unveiled the Casa Contêiner ( The container house) at the 2019 Casacor exhib...

New York and Naples-based architecture firm LOT-EK has designed "Drivelines Studios", a modular residential building in Johannesburg, South Africa, using 140 upcycled shipping containers. Located in Maboneng, a...

Nestled on a rocky site in the California desert, Whitaker Studio’s Joshua Tree Residence is a cluster of white cargo containers, which form a new retreat for a film producer and his wife, who live in Los Ang...

Shanghai Huadu Architecture & Urban Planning (HDD) has completed the Transformable Smart Home for a young start up designer in China. The client is a young man who just has his start up business about 3D pr...

Architect Josué Gillet’s studio 2A Design used shipping containers to built this prefabricated house on a tiny plot in a rural village next to Rennes, France. The Flying Box Villa is sliced in three levels, ...

In the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, People’s Architecture Office has designed a pavilion built using stacked shipping containers. Twelve shipping containers stacked and shifted in plan and layered in ...