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Constructed from recycled shipping containers, Platoon Kunsthalle is a dynamic space for subculture movements in Seoul.

This concept was first introduced almost 10 years ago in Berlin, running diverse culture and communication projects – like street art, graphic design, fashion, video art, programming, music, club culture, political activism etc – in cooperation with an international community of 3,500 creatives from different professions.

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The Moderne is a 30-story high-rise building featuring luxury apartments and penthouses, in Milwaukee’s Park East Corridor. However, our story does not revolve around this fancy up-scaled condo; we wanted to tell you about its Eco-friendly, shipping-container-based Sales Center.

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This award-winning, coastal getaway is actually a recycled shipping container, that sits lightly on a seaside cliff in Coromandel, NZ. It belongs to the Crosson family, and is an attempt to provide an environment to capture the essential spirit and beauty of New Zealand.

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The modern prefab home of industrial designer Debbie Glassberg, in Kansas City, Missouri, is constructed from five metal shipping containers. It features 2,600 sq. ft. of natural light and living space, including geothermal heating, plant foam insulation and passive solar.

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This modern container home is absolutely beautiful. Located in Pont-Péan, France, if I’m not mistaken, the Crossbox house is a single family home constructed from four shipping containers.

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This single family home in Lille, France, is constructed from eight recycled shipping containers, 40 ‘high and painted red. All prefabricated units were transported by truck and assembled on site using a crane. Assembly time: Three days!

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How do you almost double the size of an existing one-story 1950’s bungalow home in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, with a limited budget and zoning restraints? Keep on reading to find out…

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Shipping containers are a great solution for building a home. However, they can also serve as an office, a shop and even as a hotel. Take a look at the Bayside Marina Hotel, by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects, in Kanagawa, Japan – It consists of 31 hotel guest rooms, which are made from 40 ft. steel shipping containers.

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Who would have thought a container home would flourish in the desert… Take a look at Tim Palen’s spacious house and studio at Shadow Mountain. It is the first re-purposed shipping container home permitted and built in the Mojave Desert – a hybrid green machine for living.

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Shipping container homes are awesome; they’re affordable, stylish and most of all sustainable. Three friends – a designer, an architect and a developer – decided to create a collection of container homes for the modern dweller; they define it as “one of the smartest ways to house yourself”.from the small ALP320 to the spacious 1280 Hella (priced at $39,900 – $128,000), this new collection is all about ‘modular, environmental, kinetic, assembly’ – or in short Meka.

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Based in Victoria, Australia, Fulton + Salomon specialize in shipping container based architecture, offering various models from a small one bedroom 40 ft container home up to a 32 container luxury house. We spoke to Geoffrey Fulton, Founder of Fulton+Salomon, and discovered an architect who thinks outside the square but inside the box! A 20-40 foot shipping container “box”, that is.

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A truly new way to live – that is what Zigloo.ca is all about. Located in Victoria B.C., Canada, this small company uses shipping containers as architectural building blocks; the benefits of which are lowering our carbon footprint, saving our forests and doing it affordably. We spoke with Keith Dewey, owner and designer of zigloo.ca, to find out more about the world of shipping container homes and CargoSpace Living.

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Port-a-Bach is a holiday home made from a shipping container. It’s portable, secure, stylish, and can comfortably accommodate two adults and two children. How wonderful it is to just lay there, on the top bunk bed, read a book and enjoy the perfect indoor/outdoor flow.

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Located in the Old Port of Montréal, this sea food diner presents a new concept – a modern re-interpretation for the old-fashioned canteen. The Resto Movbox is actually a recycled steel shipping container with a slick design, that opens-up in under a minute and transforms into a restaurant.

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