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Architect Brian Stark wants to tackle the country's affordable housing crisis — one shipping container at a time.
The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.
Mods Is Setting New Limits for Shipping Container Homes: Units Even Have Pools and Garages Published: 19 Mar 2023, 08:37 UTC • By: Cristian Curmei 11 photos ...
He then gives a bit of history, tracing container buildings back to a patent in 1989. Here, he is patently wrong; people were playing with them back in the seventies.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has told a Surrey man he cannot have a shipping container as a shed for storing his children’s things in his garden. The City of Surrey took Praveen Kaur Koonar and ...
(These things come in pink!) The sheds are part of a product line by Cardinal Buildings, LLC, and more will arrive in September, said Haas, who plans to have around 50 samples on site.
That’s fine, said Kaohsiung architect Lin Chih-feng, who has designed five container structures since 2013. The total cost comes to only about 60% to 80% of that of a traditional dwelling, he said.
When we hear about shipping container buildings, we're typically fed a narrative about the uniqueness of their architectural method rather than the applied benefits of reducing housing costs and ...