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fastcompany.com - 3/6/2009
Would You Live In A Shipping Container? | Cannell
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Interior-of-the-Collector's-House-at-the-Shelburne-Museum Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers . A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek , began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction against the tidy white surfaces of ...
Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping Container Houses [Architecture]
i.gizmodo.com - 3/9/2009
Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping Container Houses [Architecture]
— i.gizmodo.com — Adam Kalkin is most recognizable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy... . Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures. Kalkin's prefab homes use anywhere from one to six, or ... (more) Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping ...
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Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping Container Houses [Architecture]
Gizmodo — Adam Kalkin is most recognizable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy. Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures. Kalkin's prefab homes use anywhere from one to six, or sometimes even 12 shipping containers as the frame for the home. Kalkin's homes tend to range in price from $150-$400 per square foot, with the cheapest container house costing $50,000. Some are very simple, merely containing a room in in a single container, where as others have whole other structures built ...

Think outside the box by living inside one
Core77 — ... "Would you live in a shipping container?" asks Fast Company. Might be tough to answer off the top of your head, so have a look at their ...

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