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...
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. In 2012, the market’s southernmost aisle was given a makeover and renamed String Bean Alley, in honour of the farmers who once...
As Great Britain emerged from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, pubs were closing at an alarming rate. In 2009, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) estimated that 52 British pubs were closing each week. But the 2012 arrival of Hall & Woodhouse in Portishead...
The sight of shipping containers is not uncommon along the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne’s west. The nearby Port of Melbourne is Australia’s busiest port for containerised cargo, handling millions of tonnes of cargo each year. Towering stacks of...
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. But the conspicuous vessel soon came to be known as Artsbox, a...
Melbourne has seen its fair share of container clad pop up shops and bars in recent years; Melbournians love a good pop up. But the latest pop up phenomenon to sprout up at the edge of the city has taken root in a more literal sense. Run by the gardening gurus at The...
