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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Shipping Container Home

The city of Lynnwood is debating a proposal to ban allowing shipping containers as permanent storage in residential neighborhoods. "The city's proposing to prohibit them to be used as storage sheds in backyards and single family homes," said Paul Krauss Container House - April 2015: A video taken with Phil Murphy who is building a new house out of shipping containers on The Hummock. Mr Murphy is from Gympie and said he was initially attracted to the land 20 years ago after sitting on his friend's balcony Some designers revive shipping containers as jazzy modern homes, others, like Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki turn them into trippy life-size kaleidoscopes. Completed for the Art in a Container competition at the Kobe Biennale, a celebration of art The technology has revolutionized shipping, and Container Home Plans has shared this infographic on how the shipping container has changed the world since its invention in 1956. A 1,200lb-man forced to move from his financially-troubled nursing home was hoisted from the building by a crane and driven to his new residence on a flatbed truck. Robert Butler, 43, was transported inside a shipping container from Bannister House in Watch above: A Carstairs company is thinking outside the box, literally, with their unusual approach to home construction. Mia Sosiak reports. CALGARY – Two young Albertans are turning shipping containers—also known as seacans— into hotel suites .

The massive metal boxes will soon house local businesses The plot’s quick access and visibility might make the shipping containers sitting ducks, but, Solomon said, it can also be good for business. And if he can’t stop graffiti, why not join The Glass Works student block will provide accommodation for 270 students on Coquet Street in the Ouseburn area of Newcastle. Standard shipping containers arrived on site from China completely fitted out as bijou studio apartments, complete with bathrooms. But that kind of living is over for her. She will be moving into a home that supporters believe will be the first of its kind in Kentucky — a shipping container converted into a house. "I am going to decorate it and make it real pretty," said Priddy Kolk works for a biotech start-up in San Francisco. The container is his new home, and Iseman is his new next-door neighbor. Driving a forklift and moving shipping containers around is not the kind of work that most Ivy League biz-school grads hope to land. .