![]() ![]() "Beauty can be found in things that might look ugly," Tolla said.īut here's the thing: The vast majority of people in the market for an office, public facility or home made out of shipping containers don't buy them heavily used, because doing so doesn't make financial sense. Italian architect Tolla said she and Lignano favor containers that are 10 to 15 years old, both for sustainability reasons and because they like the containers' hip, dilapidated look. His firm, Envelope, created Proxy, a development in San Francisco that includes several businesses housed in shipping containers, from a clothing store to a beer garden.Ĭontainers are also an attractive alternative to traditional construction materials such as cement - cement manufacturing produces the world's third-highest level of planet-warming pollution - and wood, which requires cutting down trees and growing them again. ![]() "Shipping containers are great for building with because they are modular, movable and durable," said California architect Douglas Burnham. Dan Rockhill Shipping containers are used in the Monarch Village temporary housing development in Lawrence, Kansas.
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