materialicious are busy trying to reinvent the shipping container as well- here are some of their highlights….there is a new standard for all yal builders out there to add to your train car, cross-reference applique directories- IBU = Intermodal Building Unit (= Shipping Container) is a brand new [and exclusive to a guy named Greg] standard for stacking boxes! they have been reporting on some of the nicest designs that I have seen anywhere.

a company in france now offers eco-friendly ISOs with bamboo flooring and you can even cop that above pattern of a pattern for a tile pattern for your floor. anybody remember super puzzle fighter II turbo? back to the original mode of reasoning of writing about shipping containers, these meditation pods seem like a really practical use for a rampant shipping container. it is good to see that the public’s interest in shipping containers has actually yielded replacement "containers" that merely represent the possibilities of the consumer’s desire to save the environment and effectively make non-custom (soon to be custom) containers less expensive for building in the process.

CNN coverage via materialicious