container buildings
it seems like there are a lot of these being built, so maybe it's time for them to have their own thread? here's the idea:
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Exceptional Green Living on Rose Parks in Detroit is finally looking to get off the ground, this year. They have all the approvals, but being a new company, they've not been skilled at attracting investment and capital for the project. Hopefully, this will be the year it gets done.
Exceptional Green Living on Rosa Parks will be a 17-20 units condominium project in Woodbridge, just west of Midtown. http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._8113501_n.jpg EGLinc Facebook |
Hamburg Cruise Center
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Looking at the very first 'project' shown in this thread and the picture just abvoe this post I am struck by the huge contrast between:
a) the 'honest' use of containers as a cheap, mobile, practical way to erect a small village and the attempt, through shading and the grass/astro turf to improve quality of life (however humbly), vs. b) the probably viciously expensive, puzzling concept of trying to make a 'high-end' building look prefabricated and/or industrial and/or devoid of any grace other than that provided by the engineering virtuosity of the massing. I am not a victim of the modern superstition about authenticity, but I think it is fairly evident that aggressive artifice and exhibitionism have no place in a tasteful building. P.S. V. interesting thread, thanks. Large 'containerscrapers' are common now in London building projects of some size. In Brand's "How Buildings Learn", he (provocatively) posited the question of why bother "wet" building when one could just stack containers. |
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Here is an atrocious project proposed in Boise, Idaho.
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I really like this idea. I'm all about recycling and putting a new use to old things.
There's a bar in downtown that uses them. The area was zoned for vertical mixed use for higher density, and has since then seen a few new residential highrises built along with new bars and restaurants opening. http://www.austin360.com/food-drink/...m-1556363.html Quote:
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Brazil has a clothing stores franchise called "Concept Store Container"
it is present in some 25 brazilian cities, about half of them in my state (which makes me think their HQ is here) the one in my city http://blog.santespa.com.br/wp-conte...11/04/loja.jpg |
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