The International Container Arts Festival was first held in 2001, and has been held once every two years since that time. The container arts festival has now become a major cultural event in Kaohsiung City. Each work of container bears witness to the role of shipping in the advance of civilization in Kaohsiung over the most recent decade. Thanks to the artists’ versatile talents, each empty container is transformed from nothing to something, and the rust-filled, warped waste containers are neatened up and reused as unimaginably creative art. Continue reading “Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival” »
South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan : on June 10, Puma has installed two new shipping container retail shops designed by NY architects LOT-EK. One contains their soccer clothing collection and the other shoes and boots. Continue reading “PUMA Container Stores: NY” »
Kindergarden based on shipping containers.
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For the passionate ones … Shipping Container toys …
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Platoon Kunsthalle is built of 28 iso cargo containers. As icons of a flexible architecture in a globalized culture, the stacked containers form a unique construction that can be rebuilt anywhere else any time.
Platoon Kunsthalle provides showcases of underground artists, studio residencies and a fine selection of cutting-edge stage performances to introduce the energetic potential of subculture in Korea and Asia.
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Uxbridge, UK : first Travelodge ( budget hotel company) hotel made out of shipping containers.
The 86 containers used in the Uxbridge hotel were prepared in China with plasterboard walls, electrics and bathrooms already in place before being shipped to the UK, stacked and assembled like lego pieces.
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Industrial area transformed in student campus in Amsterdam.
One of the largest projects based on shipping containers.
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Container City is a trademark of “Urban Space Management”. It is principally a means of utilising standard shipping containers, at the end of their life, to produce flexible accommodation and offices at low cost.
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Books about Shipping Containers Housing
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