October 25, 2007

Dude, Under Siege, Blackwater Takes On Air Of Dwell Magazine!

Modular, prefab, minimalist, outdoor space, nice matte finish, shipping containers... Just slap a couple of solar panels on the roof and get a book stylist in there to add a Moholy-Nagy monograph to the coffee table, I think we...
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July 29, 2006

TGI Freitag

Been a while since I've posted shipping container architecture news, but it's become so hot everywhere else, I'm sure no one minds. This is worth mentioning, though. Regine interviewed one of the Freitag brothers about the bag company's new...
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Posted by greg at 12:36 PM

November 25, 2003

Shipping Containers, v. 4

It's an inadvertent but recurring subject of interest here at greg.org: the architectural use of connex shipping containers. Sunday, NPR aired a puffy little interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, the new US envoy to Afghanistan; it turns out he'll be living...
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February 20, 2003

Shipping Containers, v. 3

A sporadically recurring topic here at greg.org, the non-shipping use of shipping containers. [Instigating post here, extensive post here.] Shipping container used in an illegal Israeli outpost, image:nytimes.com Samantha Shapiro's NYTimes Mag story, "The Unsettlers," profiles young, militant Israelis who...
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October 25, 2002

On The Transformative Power of Architecture, or The Caribbean Light At The End of The Tunnel

image via globalsecurity.org Last month I wrote about art and architecture made from connex containers, the standard 40-foot steel boxes used for international shipping. #1 architects MVRDV proposed a complex made from them for Rotterdam, their home town (and a...
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September 30, 2002

carry-on luggage, four weeks later

Nearly a month after an accidental click into a carry-on luggage article brought my surfing to a teary halt, it's okay to laugh again. In this week's New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten tells of of several successful attempts to carry Emmy...
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