March 30, 2009

Go Green

You know those shipping containers that go overseas? How'd you like to live in one?


How about if it looked like this?

It seems that re-used shipping containers are the newest in green housing. London and Amsterdam have whole complexes made out of them.

A standard container is 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 and a half feet high. 320 square feet of living space in a self-contained box. People have been living in reclaimed containers for decades, but now the architects have caught on and are making them into something much more appealing than a rusted box.

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