Transforming plywood walls add rooms & service to Geneva home by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2016 When a family of five in Geneva was looking to turn two large basement rooms into four, including a bedroom …
Artist builds his Savannah studio with shipping containers by Kirsten Dirksen on October 23, 2016 Architect, artist, designer Julio Garcia had been designing plans for shipping container homes for a decade before he found the …
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 …
Post-zoning in Containertopia: SF factory of container homes by Kirsten Dirksen on October 26, 2015 When we first visited Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart on a formerly abandoned lot in West Oakland (CA), they were …
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 …
Stacked cargo containers in New Haven’s “LEGO” apartments by Kirsten Dirksen on December 1, 2014 Christian Salvati of Marengo Structures thinks shipping containers make great building blocks and in time, he hopes it will become an affordable …
Containertopia: cargo container tinyhome town on Oakland lot by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2014 Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreamt of living in a …
Box Office stacks 32 colorful containers into stunning building by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2014 In 2008, architect Joe Haskett was hired to design an office building on an abandoned lot in Providence, RI. Then …
Creating pop-up neighborhoods & installs with containers by Kirsten Dirksen on March 17, 2014 James Alfandre comes from a family of real estate developers (his maternal ancestors helped settle the Salt Lake Valley). He …
Shipping containers recycled into affordable Salt Lake home by Kirsten Dirksen on February 14, 2014 Real estate broker Jeff White dreamed of transforming used shipping containers into affordable housing. Laughed at by the first architects …
