September 8, 2010

office/studio space

box office12 office/studio spaces constructed from 32 recycled shipping containers on an abandoned strip of Providence history – the former Harris Lumber site. Website: boxoffice460.com

Digicel, school from containers

Digicel, school from containersPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The first school built under an partnership between Digicel and the United States Agency for International Development USAID was opened here yesterday.

Read more

Boxman Studios

Introducing Boxman Studios, a revolutionary new way to host events using the latest in recycled technology – shipping containers.

Introducing Boxman Studios, a revolutionary new way to host events using the latest in recycled technology – shipping containers. That’s right, we custom fabricate these dinosaurs of logistics and outfit them with all the modern-day comforts. From seating for nearly 30 guests to a double-sided bar, solar powered electrical hookup and 500 square feet of covered space, we deliver our venues virtually anywhere and handle all the set up and break down (which takes only about 20 minutes.) Bam! – instant party. Just add people.
www.boxmanstudios.com

Pop-up container clinic

Driven by the belief that basic health interventions can save the lives of millions in the developing world, Containers to Clinics developed a new clinical model for health service delivery.

[Read more...]

Shipping Container As An Underground Shelter

Renea Anderson’s “zero-waste” space

Recycled and repurposed shipping containers could be future international meeting spaces. That’s according to Renea Anderson, a student in UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management.

news.ucf.edu

ecotech west

ecotech west is a new and innovative shipping container design/build firm  helmed by architect Walter Scott Perry (and BUILDERnews advisory board member) and builder Eric Engheben of 44West Construction.
www.ecotechwest.com

Clinic Made of Freight Containers Heads to Haiti

Pre-built inside a pair of 20-foot-long steel shipping containers that can be loaded onto boats, the clinic is set to arrive in Port-au-Prince around the beginning of June, according to Containers to Clinics, the Dover, Massachusetts-based nonprofit that developed it.

By June, it’s to be set up on the grounds of Graces Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

[Read more...]

Container Studio / Maziar Behrooz Architecture

Container Studio / Maziar Behrooz Architecture

This wonderful garden office is the workplace of music industry executive and artist Debbie Gibbs and built by MB Architecture using recycled shipping containers: the studio is two steel shipping containers on top of a foundation wall with an interior ceiling height of 18′.
[Read more...]

J’lem: Send Iranian smuggling case to UN – Jerusalem Post

J'lem: Send Iranian smuggling case to UN Jerusalem Post BERLIN – After US Marines seized seven shipping containers filled with 7.62-mm.

More:
J’lem: Send Iranian smuggling case to UN – Jerusalem Post