LOT-EK upcycles 140 shipping containers into an apartment complex in South Africa
A massive, modular residential building has risen in Johannesburg, South Africa with aims of revitalizing Maboneng...
The Cubes: LOT-EK unveils futuristic shipping container structure for Socrates Sculpture Park
A futuristic new shipping container building is coming to Socrates Sculpture Park. In celebration of the park’s...
Shipping container tower transforms Brooklyn carriage house into a bright orange oasis
The interior volume of the home was filled with a container tower made up of four shipping containers. The tower...
Repurposed shipping containers inject funky and unexpected color to a historic home renovation
Artist Markus Linnenbrink and his wife, gallerist Cindy Rucker, commissioned LOT-EK to renovate the existing two-level...
LOT-EK Proposes Resilient DUNE CO-HABITAT to Defend Against Flooding in the Rockaways
DUNE CO-HABITAT combines ecological design into a public and semi-public open space network to create an environment...
PHOTOS: Unusual Wedge-Shaped Shipping Container Townhouse Rises in Brooklyn
According to LOT-EK, the Carroll House was erected from a stack of 21 shipping containers that was "then cut diagonally...
LOT-EK Unveils Plans for Solar Taichung Cultural Center Made from 1,620 Recycled Shipping Containers
LOT-EK chose to use recycled shipping containers in their Taichung City Cultural Center proposal due to the modular...
LOT-EK’s Sanlitun South is an Urban Shipping Container Village in Beijing
LOT-EK's Sunlitan South is one part of a larger retail and living center in Beijing. Master planned by The Oval...
PHOTOS: Whitney Museum Adds a New Shipping Container Art Studio Designed by LOT-EK
The Whitney Studio shipping containers are stacked to form a two-level structure measuring 20x20x20 feet. The volume...
Mobile Shipping Container Studio by LOT-EK Takes Over the Whitney Museum Sculpture Court
Constructed from six disused shipping containers, the Whitney Studio will bring 472 square feet of space for unique...
Petroleum Tank Turned into Futuristic Loft Sleeping Pod and Loo
To make the most of the material, LOT-EK cut the tank into two sections. The first section was placed horizontally...
LOT-EK Wins AIA New York Chapter’s Design Award 2011 for APAP Shipping Container Art School
LOT-EK’s design for the Open School focused on activating the open space at the river edge. Set on a site that...
LOT-EK’s Nine Level Shipping Container Mall for New York City
With the economy stalling, there are currently many empty lots or slivers of land sitting stagnant in the city....
Shipping Container Art School in Korea by LOT-EK
In case you couldn't get enough shipping container architecture today, LOT-EK recently unveiled plans for an art...
Puma City Shipping Container Store Pops Up in NYC
photo credit: SampleSaleShop.com In honor of the World Cup, Puma has set up shop at South Street Seaport in...
LOT-EK to Build Pier 57 Made of Shipping Containers!
Committed to opening up NYC's waterfront to the public, the Hudson River Park Trust transforms the West side's...
PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja
We've featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK's container...
PREFAB FRIDAY: Container City in London
We've featured container-architecture here at Inhabitat before -- from Lot-Ek's altered and extruded prefab container...
RECYCLED AIRPLANE PAVILION by Lot-ek
Last year we wrote about Lot-ek's recycled airplane fuselage library and got a ton of interest from people who...
PREFAB FRIDAY: LOT-EK Container Home Kit (CHK)
We've raved about Lot-Ek before for their ingenious conversions of industrial shipping containers into inhabitable...
PREFAB FRIDAY: LOT-EK MDU Shipping Container House
It wouldn't be a stretch to call LOT-EK one of the original pioneers of shipping-container prefab. Their Modular...
VIDEO: Shipping-Container Homes from Lot-ek
Anyone who reads Inhabitat with regularity knows we love shipping-container architecture, and are big fans of the...
DAVID HERTZ’ PANEL HOUSE
Constructing buildings with industrial detritus seems to be a trend of late. We recently covered LOT-EK's airplane...
LOT-EK’S RECYCLED AIRPLANE LIBRARY
Move out of the way shipping containers... there's a new kid on the block: airplane fuselages. New York's urban...
