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SLC’s Gorilla Design featured on MSNBC for Shipping Container Homes!
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009 – 14:09 | Comments
SLC’s Gorilla Design featured on MSNBC for Shipping Container Homes!

I love what they are doing over at Gorilla Design so I am very happy to see that they were featured this week on MSNBC, thanks to a trip to the Sustainable Design Conference.

Not only …

LOT-EK’s Flexible container retail. More incredible ISBU/shipping container use.
Saturday, 6 Dec, 2008 – 8:11 | Comments
LOT-EK’s Flexible container retail.  More incredible ISBU/shipping container use.

Preston over at Jetson Green posted on LOT-EK’s most recent container creation, Puma City.  You know I love container building and this is a wonderful use of container design.  It really shows the strength of …

Peter De Maria on Shipping Container/ISBU Design.
Saturday, 25 Oct, 2008 – 11:24 | Comments
Peter De Maria on Shipping Container/ISBU Design.

This video has been floating around the web since posted on Gl Living in April, but I have not yet posted it. It is a very valuable resource for anyone looking to have their …

The beginnings of a new shipping container/ISBU revolution?
Thursday, 9 Oct, 2008 – 21:33 | Comments
The beginnings of a new shipping container/ISBU revolution?

Through a contact note I received over at my other blogsite I have learned of a new group that has been put in place to build Shipping Container/ISBU homes. They call themselves High Country …

How strong is a shipping container home?
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 13:37 | Comments
How strong is a shipping container home?

I have posted on Shipping Container Homes numerous times in the past and everytime I get questions on the strength. Sure they are cool, but can they handle being a home? Will they …

Most concise shipping container (ISBU) resource yet.
Wednesday, 30 Jul, 2008 – 6:33 | Comments
Most concise shipping container (ISBU) resource yet.

Shipping container ISBU homes are gaining in popularity every day. It is probably because it is a sturdy, viable, cheap mode of construction along with using an existing resource that is piled high in …

A new shipping container resource that I came upon today – isotecture.com
Saturday, 19 Jul, 2008 – 5:31 | Comments

While searching the internet today I came upon a comment on a blog post over at weburbanist.com. In the comment a gentleman had mentioned that he had started a new website that gives the nuts …

Shipping container homes get national press.
Friday, 18 Jul, 2008 – 5:48 | Comments
Shipping container homes get national press.

I have been posting on shipping container homes for some time now and in my comments and feedback I get many who think this is just another flash in the pan.  That they will never …

Gorilla Design to build Salt Lake City’s first (that I know of) shipping container home.
Tuesday, 15 Jul, 2008 – 11:22 | Comments
Gorilla Design to build Salt Lake City’s first (that I know of) shipping container home.

Last Friday I had the great pleasure of meeting with Roi Maufas and Alyssa Kay of Gorilla Design to discuss their new shipping container project just South of Liberty Park here in Salt Lake City. …

Have an idea for a shipping container (ISBU) project? Check out Live the Box.
Saturday, 3 May, 2008 – 8:38 | Comments
Have an idea for a shipping container (ISBU) project? Check out Live the Box.

On the Northern tip of Newark, NJ’s Central Ward sits a bit of land, covered in old buildings that has a dream of being home to the next shipping container project.  The great thing about …

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