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We love a good shipping container-turned-home. The simple structures make for masculine, gritty spaces that offer an urban industrial look that can literally be placed anywhere you like from city to countryside. What started as a seemingly strange choice for a house...

Link : https://dlmag.com/squirrel-park-sustainable-living-community-created-with-shipping-containers/ Search “sustainable” on Google and you will find basic definitions of the word. Make it “sustainable living” and you will see millions of suggestions for eco-friendly...

Link : https://archpaper.com/2020/01/interior-shipping-containers-amagansett/ When one thinks of a house in the Hamptons, they usually picture a beach-front McMansion with large shingle roofs and endless windows. These colossuses often contain innumerable bathrooms...

Weather and seasonal changes can make things hard in the construction industry. In the winter, the snow, slush, and freezing temperatures seep into your bones. If it’s raining, your construction site gets wet and muddy, making your job harder and possibly compromising...

Link :  A leisurely cruise between the home shores of Southampton and the skyscrapers of New York is often seen as the most glamourous way to cross the Atlantic - although such voyages, with their echoes of the "golden age of travel", tend to come with an equally...

Millions of people need homes. Millions of shipping containers are going unused. Could this be an answer to the global housing crisis? Cleveland Containers explore further England is facing a housing crisis. According to housing charity Shelter, more than 50,000...

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48719006 A £1.6m hub for a community arts, office and conference space will be built in a Cheltenham car park from 31 shipping containers. WorkShop Group wants to build the development on the 60-space site...

Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-somerset-46825902/shipping-containers-converted-into-affordable-small-homes?fbclid=IwAR1vys2IXNYARe1FApICBoY2B0TOcvjMblg5G-Km1aT4LyXDYlNF9srXrmkS       Affordable housing campaigner Robin Howell wants to...

Five shipping containers could transform a Fife harbour into a bustling community hub, according to new plans submitted to Fife Council. The North Queensferry Community Trust wants to install five of the 20-foot structures on land near the village’s harbour. The group...

Portable Cabins have became ever more popular in this day and age and for a good reason, they are excuse the pun, Portable and make a very good resource for a lot of companies out there that need portable accomadation, storage or facilities. Portable Cabins are used...

Street food outlets and vintage shopping are set to become a major new attraction on Felixstowe seafront in a range of converted shipping containers Plans for the seaside development on the frontage of Manning's Amusement Park have been submitted - and the attraction...

Link : https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-horror-attraction-involves-getting-17083502 Scared of the dark? You might want to give the latest horror attraction to come to Manchester a miss. Survive the Nightmare will see audiences shut...

The humble shipping container is finding new life in the U.K., where Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained approval to construct a series of homes out of the ubiquitous containers. This "cargotecture" project is aimed at providing cheap, social housing using...

Link : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7505947/Old-shipping-containers-transformed-luxury-five-star-holiday-oasis-bush.html An old shipping container transformed into a five-star villa in the Australian bush has been shortlisted in the Stayz Holiday Home of...

Link : https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/creative-village-of-shipping-containers-transforms-wasteland-near-ancoats-to-triple-in-size/ Following a hugely successful launch earlier this year, Pollard Yard, the Ancoats-based creative hub for small and independent businesses,...

Link : https://containercabins.co.uk/first-look-insid…omeless-families/ ‎Edit New images have revealed what new shipping container homes for homeless people in Cardiff will look like. Work is set to begin this month to set up 13 shipping container homes in the former...

Link : https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/09/shipping-containers-transformed-refuge-homeless-8490926/ A group of social entrepreneurs are helping the homeless by transforming shipping containers into homes for rough sleepers. Dozens of old storage containers are being turned...

Kevin McCloud's Grandest Designs! Presenter reveals his top five builds in tonight's 20th anniversary episode - including a £10k shipping container project in Northern Ireland that he admits is his favourite EVER Kevin McCloud has revealed a converted shipping...