Shipping containers reimagined as useful spaces. Original design concepts and practical editorial guides for studios, offices, workshops, cafes and more.
Container galleries photograph beautifully. A bright steel box on a city square, the doors swung open, a few big canvases glowing inside. The photographs rarely show what happens on a busy Saturday, when twenty people try to look at the same wall from 1.2 …
The most interesting part of this garden office is the wall that has been opened up. The cargo doors remain at the end, while the everyday …
A farm shop at the end of a lane has a simple job and a surprising number of ways to get it wrong. People need to see what’s for sale from …
The trouble with a garden store is not usually a shortage of hooks. It is that everything comes home in a different condition. The seed …
Ask anyone planning a container conversion what they want, and somewhere near the top of the list is a big window. Ideally it runs most of …
Two container quotations can describe the same size of box and offer entirely different purchases. One ends with a shell at the depot. …
Two containers do not have to become one large room. Put them opposite each other and the gap can do a different job: a place to arrive, …
The most expensive part of an inexpensive container can be the last turn into the property. A seller’s photograph shows a box in an open …
The floor is the one part of a used shipping container that people tend to admire and then forget. It’s thick, it’s hardwood, and after …
A shipping container arrives with an environmental story already attached. Steel has been made, a box exists and giving it another job feels …
