Even More Shipping Container Geekery

With props to Jess for pointing out the story to me:



A Swiss company that makes messenger bags out of used truck tarps built their new store out of a tower of shipping containers. It's a bit more interesting than the usual "we turned shipping containers into livable space/houses" story--the glass endcaps, the diagonal bracing, the welded steel access stairs, and the bloody scale of the thing (at least eight containers high).

Story here.

Freitag is a Swiss company that uses recycled truck tarps to create a popular line of messenger bags; the company's brand blends a green sensibility with an ample dose of raw urban grit. True to form, then, Freitag's new flagship store in Zurich was built entirely of recycled shipping containers, stacked 26 meters (86 feet) high.

Note that I'm responsible for the "Don Pardo Calrissian" comment on that page (seems like they assign random names to anonmymous commenters), which also has a link to Freitag's Flickr's site.

It gives me design ideas for the shipping-container-based auxilliary space that I'd like to build someday in industrial-loft-land. An observation deck on the top would rock. If it ever happens, you're all invited over for G&Ts up there.