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.
What would you say if we told you that roasting coffee could lead to better educational opportunities for thousands of disadvantaged children?
Leading the charge of a new wave of social entrepreneurs, Roast Re:public is doing just that.
Continue reading “Shipping Container Café Serves Coffee With A Conscience”
Far from London’s trendy Southbank, in the heart of Mexico, there’s a place called Oaxaca.
The streets there are busy with wheeling and dealing, and the walls are brandished with colourful murals that speak loudly to the history and politics of the region.
Continue reading “Shipping Container Pop-up Brings Taste of Mexico to London”
Since opening last May, a new container development called Pop Brixton has energised the gritty streets of inner-city Brixton with a vibrant burst of commerce and community.
Continue reading “Container Community Hub Pops Up in London’s South”
Has this band of bearded bakers found the answer to world peace in the back of a converted shipping container in Sydney’s west?
Continue reading “Bearded Bakers Hit The Road With Jerusalem Street Food”
After seven years of touring exhibitions far and wide, Norway’s first mobile shipping container art gallery, known simply as GAD, hosted it’s final show in 2012.
Continue reading “Container Design Gets Closer to GAD in Oslo”
In a decaying laneway, in the heart of Melbourne’s bustling Chinatown strip, sits the most permanent pop up bar that the city has ever known.
When Mountain Bike Company originally opted to build Outpost 7427139 with shipping containers, the rationale was purely financial. With a final price tag of $260,000, the project certainly proved to be budget-friendly. But the benefits didn’t stop there.
To celebrate Melbourne’s coffee capital moniker, organisers of the 2013 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival decided to install a pop-up Coffee Farm on the banks of the Yarra River, where caffeine fiends could enjoy some of the world’s best blends.
On the southeastern outskirts of the sprawling metropolis of Shanghai, a futuristic vision of sustainable farming has recently emerged in the form of 78 repurposed shipping containers.
An arts initiative called House of Photography (HOP) was launched in 2012 in a bid to boost public access to the arts. Pushing the experimental boundaries of container redesign, HOP is a mobile camera obscura.
