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Shipping Container Architecture

Via Boing-boing: Making Light: Shipping container architecture. A really nice post about the use of excess shipping containers for housing and other purposes. With the disproportionately one-way flow of containerized commodities from Asia to the US, there are a surplus of containers landing on US shores (most are of course shipped back), the post details a number of articles about their reuse.

Posted by David Levinson on October 14, 2007 09:32 AM |

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Good article you've linked to. Here in London, apart from the odd trendy housing project, they haven't taken off. But they certainly appeal to me - a neat combination of reducing waste, recycling and solving the problem of those excess containers, in one fell swoop.

Posted by: Chris at Eurostar | October 17, 2007 10:58 AM

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