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Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago
Web design

This Shipping Container-Based Tiny Home Features An Interesting Space Saving Layout - Yanko Design

Shipping containers are popular in architecture, particularly for tiny homes.
UnContained Dreams' Rising Sun tiny home features clever space-saving solutions and thermal insulation. [ more ]
www.npr.org
4 months ago
DevOps

Shipping container buildings may be cool but they're not always green

Shipping containers are being repurposed by architects for building projects around the world.
They are modular, movable, and durable, making them a popular choice for innovative designs. [ more ]
SFGATE
5 months ago
SF real estate

3-Story Shipping Container House in Indianapolis Packs In the Wow Factor for $700K

A home made from shipping containers is listed for $700,000 and has been used as a vacation rental.
The property brings in around $7,500 a month and is considered turnkey and immediately cash positive. [ more ]
Mission Local
5 months ago
Mission District

A Cultural Mission Goes to the Movies

Italian designers repurpose shipping containers into chic, environmentally friendly shelter.
Filmmaker Thomas Piper profiles Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano and their design firm Lot-Ek. [ more ]
www.fastcompany.com
5 months ago
East Bay real estate

An old median near a Los Angeles freeway sat empty for years. Now it's affordable housing

Isla Intersections in South Los Angeles is a new affordable housing development made from repurposed shipping containers.
The complex is designed to minimize ambient traffic noise and features an open space landscaped with vegetation and irrigated by greywater.
The city of Los Angeles awarded leases for underutilized parcels of properties to affordable housing developers, with Holos Communities winning the lease for Isla Intersections for $1 a year. [ more ]
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