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Elegant Shipping-Container Studio on a Budget
Maziar Behrooz of MBArchitecture created a very simple, free-standing garden studio for just $60,000 using two 40 foot shipping containers; for the winning entry in the 2009 AIA Peconic Design Award. Like all too many artists, the client had a limited budget to work with. The solution was to use two side-by-side 40′ long, 9′6″ […]
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Jumbo Jet is Recycled Into a Hotel
We’ve all seen hundreds of recycled shipping containers being recommissioned as green sustainable recycled buildings. But with rising gas prices last summer, a lot of airlines were grounded, and far fewer now ply the skies with a smaller load of passengers. What to do with these massive structures? They are many of them simply parked in an airline industry recycling center in the desert. But here’s…