Shipping Container Architecture: Debunking the Design Trend of the Decade

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Almost 500,000 buildings have arrived at the Port of Los Angeles in 2021. Well- not exactly. Over 490,000 shipping containers have arrived, though. If there’s a design trend that has caught the world by storm over the past decade, it’s been the rise in transforming shipping containers into buildings as a form of architecture. But are shipping container buildings just a fad that was used to propel ideas about taking every day or is there more substance to creating giant Jenga-inspired structures?

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Cite: Kaley Overstreet. "Shipping Container Architecture: Debunking the Design Trend of the Decade" 25 Jun 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/962476/shipping-container-architecture-debunking-the-design-trend-of-the-decade> ISSN 0719-8884

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