Portable buildings built from shipping containers are fast to build, easy to transport and simple to style. We believe you can – and should – build just about any portable building or community space with shipping containers.
Shipping containers have been a resourceful product used for different innovations over the years. The fact remains that they can be put to many uses. No matter what, you can always find ways to reuse and repurpose shipping containers. One important way a shipping container can be repurposed is as a swimming pool. Shipping container pools are gradually becoming the standard today due to its many benefits and the affordability.
For more than a century, the Queen Victoria Market has been Melbourne’s go-to trading hub for fresh food, produce, home wares and souvenirs.
Continue reading “Melbourne Artisans Set Up Shop in Container Corridor”
As Great Britain emerged from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, pubs were closing at an alarming rate.
Continue reading “Container pub perks up ailing British pub scene”
The sight of shipping containers is not uncommon along the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne’s west.
Continue reading “Retired cargo containers reborn as mobile arts hubs”
When a bright purple shipping container first arrived on Paisley Street in Melbourne’s West in 2014, the locals might have wondered if the artist formerly known as Prince was somehow involved.
Continue reading “Local Artists Think Inside the Box at Melbourne Library”
Melbourne has seen its fair share of container clad pop up shops and bars in recent years; Melbournians love a good pop up.
Continue reading “City Community Garden Gets the Green Thumbs Up”
A colourful new container taqueria is importing more than Mexican beers to the historic U Street Corridor in Washington DC.
Run by brothers Eric and Ian Hilton, El Rey is bringing the neighbourhood back to life.
On the suburban outskirts of London, in a leafy township called Eltham, a new shipping container gallery has sprung up at the local school.
Continue reading “Container Gallery Provides Ship-Shape Home For Student Art”
What do you do when your city is chequered with unused public spaces and littered with shipping container graveyards? In a word: Boombox.
Continue reading “Chicago Pop Up Shop Spurs Boom in Business”
Bubbling over with creativity and artisanal entrepreneurial activity, Brooklyn has long been New York City’s leading hipster hub.
Continue reading “Brooklyn Shipping Container Café Turns Out the Tunes”
