Friday, August 26, 2011

Ultimate Recycling Project


                            
Corrugated Shipping Containers turned into....



Beautiful, modern homes and apartment buildings.

 "Corrugated steel shipping containers have attracted the eye and attention of architects and city planners alike.
Is it really possible for a hunk of junk to become something beautiful? The answer is a resounding “YES!”  Never mind DeKalb Market—Downtown Brooklyn’s brand-new food-and-retail center formed entirely of used shipping containers—the recycled structures are now icons of cool, earth-conscious, and very chic 21st-century residential living. The building movement was arguably sanctified in the pages of modern-design magazines such as Dwell and has already evolved beyond its students-on-a-budget, hippied-out roots. While crafting houses from shipping containers is certainly a money-saving building method, creative architects also aim to find a balance between the practical and the aesthetic." 
(Found on Yahoo News)

1 comment:

Mia said...

Aren't those amazing and so beautifully done.

WWMD

"My professional life has been centered on the home, the well being of the family and everything that these subjects encompass. When I began working in this area more than 25 years ago, the subject of homemaking as it relates to families was largely overlooked, though the interest was clearly broad and the desire for information strong. My colleagues and I soon discovered we were satisfying a deeply felt unmet need."

Martha Stewart, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, April 16, 2008