25 Cool Shipping Container Structures
Friday, October 12th, 2012
It's hard to pinpoint the birth of architecture's new love for shipping containers. We're going to say the last ten years have seen a steady stream of inventive reuse of the ubiquitous containers in projects in fields from education to hospitality and with aesthetics from chic to street tough. Here are 25 (plus) of our favorite container architecture projects of the past decade.
Box Office (2009)
Children's Activity Centre by Phooey (2007)
Container Studio (2010)
Container City 2 (2002)
Container Guest House (2012)
Containr temporary cinema (2010)
Dunraven (2009)
Freitag flagship (2006)
The Gang School (2007)
Genussregal (2011)
Les Grandes Tables by Jean Nouvel (2011)
Los Sopranos (2012)
Lot-ek's Puma City (2008)
Lot-ek's APAP Open School (2010)
Oceanscope (2010)
Platoon's Kunsthalle (2009)
Reclamation Drive-Thru Starbucks
Snack Box (2011)
Tagged with: A Docks • Box Office • Casa El Tiemblo • container • Decameron • Dunraven • Freitag • Genussregal • Green • Jean Nouvel • Les Grandes Tables • Los Sopranos • Lot-ek • Phooey • Platoon • recycling • shipping • Snack Box • Starbucks • The Gang School
1 Comment
Lynne Sheen
October 24, 2012Is it that containers are almost flotsam, almost the same characteristics as something from nature, born of necessity? There are endless varieties of architecturally devised pods and modules all trying to do the same job but failing. A lesson here?