Shipping container architecture

Boxpark, London
Together, Boxpark Shoreditch and Boxpark Croydon are built from more than 130 former shipping containers.

Library of Things, London
Located in two shipping containers in south London’s West Norwood, the Library of Things enables users to borrow everything from a drill to a gazebo on a pay-as-you-borrow basis. 

Downtown Container Park, Las Vegas
This shopping venue uses 78 containers repurposed by the International Port Management Enterprise, whose other projects include a shipping container high school and a portable art gallery. Repurposing containers can put some of those which go out of service to use.

Container Stack Pavilion, Dongshan, China
The 12 shipping containers that make up this office have been piled up and sliced to create a light-filled structure with double height ceilings in the centre and a spacious roof terrace.

Drukta and Formail offices, Kortrijk, Belgium
When printing office Drukta and mailing company Formail were moving to new premises – a former textile warehouse – they tasked architect-design firm Five AM with creating a low-cost, modern, open space that encouraged interaction between the offices and the work floor.

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