Is New Zealand Way ahead of the Pack?

I was glaring off into a void nothingness the other night (we geniuses do this–just kidding) and thought to myself: “Self, what if you took a container and made it…

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Advertisement Space. What if…

Fortunately, I wasn’t on the design team for the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I think it would be evident pretty quickly just how crazy I am.

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Building a Container Home… What Are the Steps?

Logic. Use it. It really makes no sense in getting ahead of yourself when contemplating or spearheading a container home building project. It’s not prudent to jump too far ahead…

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Better than a Single-Wide

A small company based in New Mexico is creating affordable homes for low income people. The company, PFNC Global Communities, takes unused and neglected 40-foot containers and converts them into full-fledged homes by definition…

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Building Code? What Stinking Code?!

Gone are the days where you can just build whatever you want. Heck, I think it’s been like 200 years… For those of you who are lucky (or unlucky…depending on…

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This is funny… and works!

This is a bit of comic relief, but I suppose may be an effective method for those looking for an answer to a gopher problem. I have fallen into unexpected…

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200-Unit Housing Project

There is a multi-family housing project using shipping containers in the works in Salt Lake City. The name of the architectural entity taking this on is Group 41based in San Francisco….

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Asia Trade Hits Rock Bottom

Seems that there is such a huge slump in shipping from Asia to the world, we have cargo ships sitting idly in the waters off China and nearby countries. The…

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My Shipping Container Film

I created a short 5-minute documentary on shipping containers and the potential use of them as homes. This was filmed at the port of Los Angeles in April 2009. Note:…

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Here is the preliminary house…

I am not done with the design yet since there are windows and other intricacies that still needs some inclusion into the drawing; but you can see where I am…

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