Shipping Container Architecture

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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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X-Calibre, in the author's defense, his next paragraph refers to them as arachnids.

Also I don't know if there is anything else behind him saying insects because he is not referring to modern day scorpions but an ancestor of them. Maybe they were technically classified as insects. I'm not sure though, google wasn't very helpful on this.
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Y'know, I've heard all the arguments and have certainly reaped the benefits of this kind of research in my lifetime, but deliberately infecting other ANYTHINGS with toxins or diseases still makes me feel like crap.
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