CNN Coverage | Shipping Container Homes
Contributing Monkie G Monkie
Topics of Interest Architecture, Media, Shipping Containers
Published on December 12, 2009
Section Architecture / Interior Design, G/Videos, Green Report / Media
Comments 4
CNN highlights the growing trend of using all those wasted shipping containers as building blocks for new homes. CNN producers talk with Architect Peter De Maria, a previous guest on G Living’s Room101. Peter specializes in Container based homes here in Southern California. He is even building a Container home just down the street from the G Living studios.
Architects are designing modern homes from the millions of excess shipping containers that are piling up at the port of LA due to the US trade deficit with China. By using the steel shipping containers as building material, homes can save 50% of construction costs, while reducing the waste and blight caused by trying to store them.
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