Long known as the summer beachfront playground for the rich and famous on America’s east coast, the Hamptons now sports a eco-friendly beach house you too can enjoy starting at around $6,500 USD for a one week stay. Measuring about 2,000 square feet inside, the stylish home, affectionately known as the ‘Beach Box’ is about […]

A Victorian farmer’s humble shipping containers played a starring role in preserving movie memorabilia from posters to projectors dating back 100 years or more. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, four old shipping containers containing floor to ceiling treasure troves of film history were bought in an estate sale last year and are now destined […]

Netherlands architects along with the ProRail railway network there are working together to create temporary bus stations they say will make waiting for transport a lot more tolerable for its ticketholders. The Barneveld Noord Station is the first of the re-imagined NL bus stations that is constructed out of four recycled shipping containers – with […]

With more than 19,000 locations in 62 countries, Starbucks is stirring things up a bit with a new store design made out of repurposed shipping containers. The recently-built Chicago location is the chain’s fifth location incorporating recycled cargo containers, all part of a company-wide effort to reduce the giant coffee retailer’s carbon footprint. The first […]

Where there’s now a dusty vacant lot next to the Las Vegas MGM Grand hotel, Aussie entrepreneur Josh Kearney pictures a $50 million extreme sports complex that will feature a sandy beach and shallow 7-acre lake, along with motocross tracks, skate parks, surfing areas, zip lines, whitewater rafting, a boutique hotel, and much more. Called […]