Good grief, is there anything you can’t do with a shipping container? Hot on the heels of speculative mutating condominiums comes this: a nice simple urban newsagents:
Looks like it has been squeezed into a former front or side yard… this sort of instant architecture is likely to become a lot more commonplace in our cities, I feel.
Makes good business sense, too… locality becoming impoverished? Hire a truck, load her on and ship her out. A fully portable business. [picture by Paul McAuley]
http://www.teampaulc.org/2009/01/shipping-container-as-store.html
“From Futurismic we get this interesting photo. Its a small shop made from a shipping container. Pretty cool. Throw in a small generator and…”