Apparently Long Beach, California, is the world’s second busiest port, with shipping containers a fairly normal view for residents. It therefore figures architecture firm APHIDoIDEA has proposed a building built using 65 recycled shipping containers.
If you’ve got the space at your next BBQ, the Boxman is a swanky alternative to the plebeian tent or – gag! – lowly picnic table. Made from a converted shipping container, you’re guaranteed to make your friends and neighbours feel inadequate.
Shipping containers in my mind are forever associated with grim situations seen in TV shows like Dexter or The Wire, but in South Korea they can also be observatories for viewing sunsets.
How do you store three petabytes (that’s 3,145,728 GB) of web pages for the Internet Archive? You put them in a datacenter housed in a shipping container.
Forget Emirates’ Sultan Class on the A380–the KT listening room built out of a converted 20-foot shipping container is the way I want to make my next trans-continental voyage.
