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- Shipping-container development designed for Los Angeles' homeless population Tue, 3 Oct 17, 11:15pmA Los Angeles neighborhood will soon be home to a new shipping container development created for individuals transitioning out of homelessness. Designed by KTGY Architecture + Planning, the Hope on Alvarado project will repurpose...
- Ireland’s first shipping container home was built in just three days Thu, 15 Jan 15, 8:00pmThe house was built from a single shipping container measuring 40 feet long by 10 feet wide. Ceardean Architects designed the home, which they envisioned as a working prototype for alternative, DIY housing. Over 60 contractors...
- Silos Topped With Stacks of Shipping Containers Provide Cheap Student Housing in South Africa Thu, 13 Feb 14, 5:00amAccording to official data, about half of South African undergraduate students drop out of school without a degree. Citiq is hoping to reduce that number by providing secure, comfortable and afffordable housing for local...
- Silos Topped With Stacks of Shipping Containeres Provide Cheap Student Housing in South Africa Thu, 13 Feb 14, 5:00amAccording to official data, about half of South African undergraduate students drop out of school without a degree. Citiq is hoping to reduce that number by providing secure, comfortable and afffordable housing for local...
- Eye-Catching Shipping Containers Atop Converted Silos Provide Cheap Student Housing in South Africa Thu, 13 Feb 14, 2:30amAccording to official data, about half of South African undergraduate students drop out of school without a degree. Citiq is hoping to reduce that number by providing secure, comfortable and afffordable housing for local...
- Container Solutions Unveils India’s First Shipping Container Home in Bangalore Tue, 8 Oct 13, 4:00pmRao previously used shipping containers as an office space and he even stacked four containers vertically to build an artificial climbing wall at Sarjapur. When he worked in Germany in 2006 he lived in a shipping container...
- Floating Container Houses Proposed for Pakistan Flood Sat, 9 Oct 10, 6:30amThe flooding of Pakistan was yet another tragedy that added to this year’s surge of natural disasters, and with 21 million people injured or homeless, we still have an emergency on our hands...
- Pop-Up Village for Haiti Made From 900 Shipping Containers Tue, 31 Aug 10, 6:15amHaitian Canadian musician Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers. Mervil is behind the Montreal organization Vilaj Vilaj, which wants to use 900 shipping...
- Shipping Containers Used for Employee Housing In Dubai Desert Fri, 23 Jul 10, 3:26amIn the world of green architecture and affordable housing, shipping container homes are often considered to be practical, cost-effective and even environmentally-friendly...
- Upcycle Living Rolls Out Affordable Shipping Container Housing Sat, 20 Feb 10, 2:00amPhoenix-based Upcycle Living is aiming to bring affordable shipping container housing to the masses with its modern cost-effective designs. Just las fall they installed a 2-bedroom house at a green street fair in Phoenix,...
- PREFAB FRIDAY: resPOD from “Down Under” Fri, 29 May 09, 7:00pmIt is wonderful to realize that the popularity of prefabricated architecture is spreading everywhere. resPOD, a conceptual prefab design by Matthew Grace Architecture who is based in Australia, is a flexible form of housing...