Cargotecture

World’s First Exhibit on Container Architecture Curated by Jure Kotnik Lands in Seattle

World’s First Exhibit on Container Architecture Curated by Jure Kotnik Lands in Seattle

Jure Kotnik, an architect based out of Slovenia, is most well known for his recent book called Container Architecture as well as a number of completed cargotecture projects. The traveling architecture

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New Zealand to Open Its First-Ever Pop-Up Shipping Container Mall Next Week

New Zealand to Open Its First-Ever Pop-Up Shipping Container Mall Next Week

City Mall, in Christchurch, New Zealand, is on track to reopen on next week, bringing New Zealand their first-ever pop-up container mall. The mall comes after the deadly earthquake that hit earlier in

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New Zealand on Screen Uses Recycled Shipping Containers & Caravans to Show Off Kiwi Films

New Zealand on Screen Uses Recycled Shipping Containers & Caravans to Show Off Kiwi Films

Brightly painted and decorated with classic film moments, the two sets of converted shipping container lounges sit on wharfs in Aukland and Wellington. Inside, visitors can learn about and watch classic

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Stockbox Grocers to Convert Shipping Containers into Local Grocery Stores in Food Deserts

Stockbox Grocers to Convert Shipping Containers into Local Grocery Stores in Food Deserts

Stockbox's grand vision is to have stores located in urban deserts so that residents have somewhere within walking or biking distance to buy fresh food. There's no need to build a giant grocery store - a

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Team China’s Y Container Solar Decathlon House Upcycles Shipping Containers

Team China’s Y Container Solar Decathlon House Upcycles Shipping Containers

The Y Container allows residents to live just about anywhere freely, with self sufficient off-grid energy sources and a lightweight mobile design. The home has three verandas that face the surrounding

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The Box Office Recycles 32 Shipping Containers Into 12 Colorful Offices in Providence

The Box Office Recycles 32 Shipping Containers Into 12 Colorful Offices in Providence

The design for the Box Office emerged after the economy degraded and the client realized he didn't have the budget for the brand new, uber green office building of his dreams. He and the architects of

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Genussregal: Stacked Shipping Container Showroom Springs up in in Austria

Genussregal: Stacked Shipping Container Showroom Springs up in in Austria

Brothers Erich and Walter Polz had a vision to enlarge their vinotheque and wine logistics center to make a larger statement about the products they were selling. Drawing only from the local region of

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Designboom’s Shipping Container Summer Offices Make Us Green With Envy

Designboom’s Shipping Container Summer Offices Make Us Green With Envy

We're green with envy over Designboom's summer offices on the island of Sardinia, west of their home base in Milan. Seeking to get out of the city for the summer, the Designboom team tackled a DIY project

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PHOTOS: Stacked Recycled Shipping Containers Create a Fantastic Info Point for Copenhagen Design Week

PHOTOS: Stacked Recycled Shipping Containers Create a Fantastic Info Point for Copenhagen Design Week

Made from locally sourced recycled shipping containers, the Information Point at Kvæsthusmolen (by The Royal Danish Playhouse) is the perfect place to find out how to navigate Copenhagen Design Week.

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Containers To Clinics Provides Critical Medical Care in Haiti

Containers To Clinics Provides Critical Medical Care in Haiti

The containers are more complex than one would guess after a first glance. C2C partnered with Anshen + Allen Architects and Stack Design Build to design and build a prototype, and the team has

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Tommy Hilfiger’s Berlin Shipping Container Installation Stacked with Dynamic Imagery

Tommy Hilfiger’s Berlin Shipping Container Installation Stacked with Dynamic Imagery

While other similar trade show installations use brand new containers, all of the ones used for the Hilfiger show were recycled. The containers are refurbished at Bootsmanufaktur, a shipyard that also

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(RE) Configured-Ecologies: Recycled Shipping Container Structures to Revive Long Beach

(RE) Configured-Ecologies: Recycled Shipping Container Structures to Revive Long Beach

The city of Long Beach, CA recently asked firms WE-designs and XP& Architecture to come up with a landmark project on a low budget to revitalize its downtown area. The result was this cluster of

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Adjustable XBO Mobile Unit Redefines the Mobile Home

Adjustable XBO Mobile Unit Redefines the Mobile Home

XBO Mobile was initially conceived as part of the innovative European exhibition called PARASITE, a forward thinking architecture show standing for “Prototypes for Amphibious, Readymade, Advanced,

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Redneck Shipping Container House Comes Complete With Solar Panels & Camo Decor

Redneck Shipping Container House Comes Complete With Solar Panels & Camo Decor

Although it's not clear whether the home was designed by an architect, it appears to be a clever project that make efficient use of space. The Chive has tons of pictures of the construction of the home -

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Shipping Container Pool Filters River Water as it Floats Through France

Shipping Container Pool Filters River Water as it Floats Through France

The barge hosts two separate pools - a large 82' x 36' pool that is 8 feet deep, and a smaller 36' x 32' kiddie pool that is only 4 ½ feet deep. Together, they complete Bordeaux’s CUB Olympic

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The Periscope Project: Hip Shipping Container Art Space Redefines Architecture in San Diego

The Periscope Project: Hip Shipping Container Art Space Redefines Architecture in San Diego

Construction on the exhibition and studio space began back in 2007 and has slowly progressed over the years with the addition of the containers. The exhibition space is composed of 5 shipping containers,

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Shipping Container Learning Center Lands In Australian Aboriginal Community

Shipping Container Learning Center Lands In Australian Aboriginal Community

The student project was completed through a design/build course at the university as part of the Bower Studio, a program that works with indigenous communities to build the infrastructure. Over their

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Co-tain’s Homeless Health Care Clinic Concept is Made of Recycled Shipping Containers

Co-tain’s Homeless Health Care Clinic Concept is Made of Recycled Shipping Containers

Last year's FFA Orlando/AIA Florida Chapter architecture competition asked participants to design a new health care clinic for the homeless in the Paramore district of downtown Orlando, FL. Recent

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Adam Kalkin Unveils Pirate Radio Tower Made From a Recycled Shipping Container!

Adam Kalkin Unveils Pirate Radio Tower Made From a Recycled Shipping Container!

We've counted Adam Kalkin’s incredible shipping container renovations as some of our favorite projects over the past few years, and the artist/architect just unveiled his latest work - a pop-up pirate

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Over 100 Incredible Examples of Cargotecture Exhibited At NRW Forum in Düsseldorf

Over 100 Incredible Examples of Cargotecture Exhibited At NRW Forum in Düsseldorf

‘Containers are a symbol of the way we live and dwell in our globalized, mobile, nomadic age,’ says exhibition organizer Werner Lippert when asked to explain what gave him the idea for the exhibition.

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New Pop-Up Shipping Container Restaurant Brings a Taste of Singapore to the World

New Pop-Up Shipping Container Restaurant Brings a Taste of Singapore to the World

The mobile pop up restaurant is just one part of Singapore's campaign to introduce their cuisine to the world. Besides traveling around the globe serving up tasty bites, the campaign is also offering a

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Awesome Shipping Container Shops to Pop Up on NJ’s Asbury Park Boardwalk

Awesome Shipping Container Shops to Pop Up on NJ’s Asbury Park Boardwalk

Asbury Park, NJ will become home to four awesome new pop-up shipping container shops this summer. Designed by Madison Marquette, the containers were salvaged from a shipyard and painted to fit in with the

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Fashionable São Paulo Furniture Store Shows its Goods in Colorful Stacked Shipping Containers

Fashionable São Paulo Furniture Store Shows its Goods in Colorful Stacked Shipping Containers

Located on the last empty lot on 'furniture row alley' in the city's popular Alameda Gabriel Monteiro da Silva neighborhood, the Decameron Design shop required something not just temporary and low-cost,

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Sunset Idea House: Hybrid Architecture’s Yellow Shipping Container Home Shows Off Small Space Living

Sunset Idea House: Hybrid Architecture’s Yellow Shipping Container Home Shows Off Small Space Living

Hybrid Architecture has been working on a series of shipping container modular building systems, which they call Cargotecture®. Relocatable, adaptable and compact, these modular homes can be used for

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Containers of Hope: Cool Costa Rican Shipping Container House Only Costs $40,000

Containers of Hope: Cool Costa Rican Shipping Container House Only Costs $40,000

You might remember Saxe as the architect who built his mother this gorgeous bamboo retreat with a moon skylight. Although based in London, Saxe spends a lot of time in Central America and he helped

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Illuminated Shipping Container Wall is a Temporary Music Festival Venue in Rio de Janeiro

Illuminated Shipping Container Wall is a Temporary Music Festival Venue in Rio de Janeiro

Images by Leonardo Finotti Instead of simply piling the containers one atop the other, Bernardes Jacobsen chose to stagger them slightly, resulting in sporadic pockets of empty space. Some of the voids

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Orokonui Ecosanctuary is a Swooping Shipping Container Visitor Centre That Protects New Zealand Nature

Orokonui Ecosanctuary is a Swooping Shipping Container Visitor Centre That Protects New Zealand Nature

The ecosanctuary protects native animals and plants and has even helped endangered species find a home. A huge, highly specialized pest-proof fence surrounds the sanctuary to keep out mammals such as

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Shipping Container Eco Loft Rises Meters Away From Unspoiled Uruguayan Beaches

Shipping Container Eco Loft Rises Meters Away From Unspoiled Uruguayan Beaches

Argentine nouvelle cuisine chef and experienced entrepreneur Alejandra Dellepiane told Inhabitat how she moved to Los Angeles at the young age of 18 years old. After working for several high-end

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Boxpark Pop-Up Shipping Container Mall Set to Open This Summer

Boxpark Pop-Up Shipping Container Mall Set to Open This Summer

The two-story mall will feature 61 container shops for various local brands that are hand-picked and invited to participate. Preferential and affordable rates ensure that a wide selection of retailers and

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Bright Green Shipping Container Hut Welcomes Visitors to Evergreen Brickworks In Toronto

Bright Green Shipping Container Hut Welcomes Visitors to Evergreen Brickworks In Toronto

For the Welcome Hut, Levitt Goodman repurposed a 20 foot shipping container and painted it bright green, which is Evergreen's signature color. Two barn doors on either side open the space up to welcome

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