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Ruby Sketch’s Compact Shipping Container Home Can Run Off-Grid for Two Weeks Sans Electricity

Ruby Sketch’s Compact Shipping Container Home Can Run Off-Grid for Two Weeks Sans Electricity

At Inhabitat, we love compact, modern designs that take advantage of efficient prefabricated building techniques, and Ruby Sketch‘s shipping container home certainly caught our eye with its

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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

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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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Controversy Heats Up Over Shipping Container Prison Cells in Australia

Controversy Heats Up Over Shipping Container Prison Cells in Australia

In a move that could be viewed by some as a regression to the late 1800s when convicts were shipped from England to Van Diemens Land (Australia), a local prison will next week begin a trial housing

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Shipping Container Transformed Into a Temporary Kindergarten Classroom In Slovenia

Shipping Container Transformed Into a Temporary Kindergarten Classroom In Slovenia

Schools constantly struggle with space shortages, but in the face of tight budgets and budget cuts there is little that many of these institutions can do. Understanding the importance of a comfortable

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Steel Space: A Shipping Container Turned Mobile Kitchen and Restaurant

Steel Space: A Shipping Container Turned Mobile Kitchen and Restaurant

Steel Space is a shipping container that can be transformed into a fully stocked restaurant, a kitchen appliance showroom, a compact traveling café, or even into a fast-food franchise. The module can

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Smak Unveils 2 Shipping Container Condos in British Columbia

Smak Unveils 2 Shipping Container Condos in British Columbia

PR agency Smak recently developed an advertising campaign for Power Smart Month in British Columbia, Canada that features two green shipping container condos plopped down in the middle of the city. Both

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PREFAB FRIDAY: “Box Office” Lets Employees Think Inside the Box

PREFAB FRIDAY: “Box Office” Lets Employees Think Inside the Box

BOX Office is a vibrant office building made of shipping containers that is also designed to maximize productivity by providing a safe, comfy environment for its occupants. So in honor of Prefab Friday

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