Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2017 Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas considers the city his playground. One day he drove under a highway overpass in his hometown …
How 16 containers became 8 wanted market-rate Phoenix condos by Kirsten Dirksen on September 12, 2016 On an old used car lot in Phoenix, architects Brian Stark and Wesley James placed 16 used shipping containers and …
Texan alley turned into barber shop turned into skinny house by Kirsten Dirksen on July 11, 2016 When metalworker George Sacaris bought an old barbershop in Marfa, Texas 15 years ago, he removed the leaking roof and …
Gothenburg stacked cargo containers as instant house/offices by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2015 Mats Johansson has rehabbed shipping containers in the port of Gothenburg (Sweden) for over 20 years, but in the past …
Refined home crafted from 2 cargo containers on NorCal farm by Kirsten Dirksen on August 31, 2015 In the late nineties, Alexis and Eric Koefoed moved onto a Northern California farm that had been abandoned for 30 …
San Francisco brick boiler room turned industrial tiny house by Kirsten Dirksen on August 17, 2015 Architect Christi Azevedo transformed a tiny boiler room in her San Francisco backyard into a compact home crafted like custom …