You know, it’s funny… When I meet someone new socially the inevitable question of “what do you work with?” comes up. After I tell them I work with shipping containers they try to look sort of interested, but you can see they’re bored already. And who can blame them? Maybe they were expecting me […]

The average attention span of a human being is just 8 seconds. But what does this have to do with buying a street food stall? It turns out quite a bit. Let me quickly explain. You’ve got an awesome menu which will make people’s taste buds explode, that’s enough for your business to succeed, right? […]

  Imagine doing laps in your own shipping container swimming pool. Ok let’s back up for a second, swimming in a used cargo container? That sounds crazy… As eccentric as it seems, a cargo container pool can actually be a good idea. And you’re almost guaranteed to be the only person who has one in […]

VIDEO: Watch how you could build a tiny house inside shipping container (on a tiny budget). Brenda wanted to build her own tiny house and be mortgage free. She was always passionate about second hand shipping containers and their potential since an early age. As someone who was always drawing designs, making diagrams and planning how to use […]

Converted cargo containers become a portable gallery What do you do when you need a large temporary building that can be moved to another location within just a few days? This was the challenge faced by Norwegian architect firm MMW. They were asked to build a temporary art gallery that could easily be disassembled – and relocated […]