This link takes you to a sort of round-up on the topic of using shipping containers as housing. It's being done, and they say it isn't the geodesic dome of our generation. In fact, there are architects making interesting stuff out of these unwanted containers.
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Sites We Like
October 13, 2007
August 19, 2007
Flex Car
You share access to hundreds of Flexcar vehicles, often within a five-minute walk of your home or work. You reserve a car online or by phone; you drive - to a meeting, to run errands, or to hit the lumber yard; and you return to the car's designated parking space, all for one hourly rate that
covers gas, premium insurance and 150 free miles. All you pay for is
the drive. How simple is that?
November 27, 2006
Sometimes You Have to do it Yourself
In trying to simplify travel for its guests, Hampton Inn looked all around for a clock that allows people to quickly and easily set the alarm and find local radio stations. When they couldn't find one, they decided to build their own. The Hampton Inn alarm clock has simple instructions printed on the clock and buttons with music genres printed on them to help even the most road-weary traveler find exactly what they're looking for.
November 19, 2006
Window Shoppers not Welcome
I guess some retailers believe that the best way to attract people to your products is to not let them see much of the product. This Abercrombie & Fitch had all their shutters drawn. If you wanted to know what they're selling this season, you have to go inside and find out for yourself. Hollister has done the same thing for some time, now. And other retailers seem to be joining the game. Rather than big windows that bare all, maybe there's something seductive about not knowing what's behind the shutters.
