Shipping Container Architecture - Neatorama

Photo: Peter Aaron / Esto - via Architecture and Hygiene

It's hard to believe that those ugly cargo shipping containers can make beautiful homes, but they do. WebUrbanist has a neat post about homes, offices, shopping malls and even hotels built from cargo containers:

There are plenty of benefits of to the so-called shipping container architecture model. A few of these advantages include: they are plentiful, they are easily transported, they’re stackable, relatively inexpensive (as little as $900 for a used container), they can be prefabricated, and they’re extremely durable. Residential applications are also becoming a popular topic of conversation among green supporters.

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Even if all the "green" hype is just that, some of the projects emerging like this are astounding. I recalled a company called Lo-Tek (seen here perhaps) that had a similar design. Hit their site www.lot-ek.com and go to Residential, CHK-Container Home Kit for pics & a short vid. Sorry, it's flash-based so I can't link directly.

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I'll submit just for the pat on the back…it is an old ice pick (with scoop).

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It is no fun at all! LEDERHOSEN XL

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Its a wookie tick remover/collector wookie uniform xl

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It's a prototype for Wolverine's claw!

Schrodinger's cat "It's a TRAP!" t-shirt, XL

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This appears to be a gentleman's lice removal tool. Properly positioned by placing his organ in the lower chamber with handle pointing away from body, hot coal was placed on the upper pan. A slight tilting of the handle up and toward the body sent the hot coal off the pan, over the spikes, setting the pubic hair aflame. When the lice ran into the clearing, they were quickly dispatched by repeated stabbing from the three prongs.

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Steampunk Afro Pick...

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This is the original prototype Spork. During testing it was found that users would often impale their upper lip on fork portion , and that the spoon portion failed to hold any liquid. The first Spork patent, based on this prototype, was issued to Samuel W. Francis under US Patent 147,119 in February 1874.

The lesser of Two Weevils, XL Black.

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We use that every thanksgiving when carving the bird. It's a combination turkey peeler-serving fork. For use with the combination carving knife-nail clipper.

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Ultimate s'mores tool, you place the first graham cracker & a liberal serve of chocolate in the lower tray; roast not one, not two, but three marshmallows on the prongs; whilst the marshmallows cook the chocolate melts; finally slide the final cracker off the top tray and enjoy perfection.

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It's a rodent/mole removing tool. The flat end stops the mole from moving along in their burrow, and then the picks come down and pin/stab the mole. Krampus Greetings 2XL

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The traditional tool for preparing "Absinthe corn on the cob".
Slide your corn into the bottom tray, sugar cube (or these days, maybe a cube of slpenda) on top of the prongs, slowly pour your Absinthe.......and bingo ! A tasy treat made by green faeries !!!
* Note that this also works well with candy bars and hot-dogs, too!

Lovecraft's canned octopus
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It's a pie server. A very ANGRY pie server . . .

Made in America with Irish Parts Men's XXL

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It is obviously a sspecial device that serves for picking up cigarette stubs with the spikes, the "shovel" serves for picking up half full packs of cigaretttes and the flat part may serce as portalbe ashtray for the cigaretts recycled from colletected cigarette stubs...
Only rarely used by fashionate hobos in the early 1920th...

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siberian cram jug and sugar bowl set.... the sugar cubes are to b placed in the pan part and the prongs are to be pierced into (frozen) cream....
you may push the sugar cubes from the pan part into the coffee and stir it with the frozen cream until it has right colour and an agreable temperature...

http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Never-Grow-Up
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It's a cheese plate server. The bottom is used for shaving slices from large blocks of cheese. The prongs are used to fend off all the mice that show up.

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