Uxbridge Travelodge in London, United Kingdom

Located in London, United Kingdom, Uxbridge Travelodge was designed by Buro Happold. Travelodge, the budget hotel company, have completed their first recycled hotel made out of shipping containers. The 86 containers used in the Uxbridge hotel were prepared in China with plasterboard walls, electrics and bathrooms already in place before being shipped to the UK, [...]

Tags: Business, China, Containerization, Containers, Happold, Hotel, Intermodal container, London, Marketing, recycled hotel, steel containers, Technology, Travelodge, United Kingdom, Uxbridge hotel

Classroom of the Future in London, United Kingdom

Designed by Gollifer Langston, Classroom of the Future is located in London, United Kingdom. The proposal for the Classroom of the Future was to create a prototype highly ICT resourced demountable “clip-on” classroom for use throughout Camden to optimise investment and availability to a wide group of school children. It is now a fully transportable space [...]

Tags: Building, Computer control systems, Education, Educational technology, Information and communication technologies in education, London, Portable building, United Kingdom

Chanel mobile art in Hong kong, China

Chanel mobile art that located in Hong kong, China , was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The size of the Pavilion will be 29m x 45m, a total of 700sqm. The overall height is 6m, with the floor raised 1.00m above the existing ground surface. The Contemporary art container is set to travel across cities [...]

Tags: Architecture, China, Deconstructivism, Hong Kong, Iraqi people, London, Moscow, New York, New York City, Paris, steel structure, Tokyo, Visual arts, Zaha Hadid

Medical housing compound in Salam Centre in Khartoum, Sudan

Designed by tam associati, Medical housing compound in Salam Centre is located in Khartoum, Sudan. The Salam Centre in Soba, Khartoum houses what could be used as a template for modern African development in its newly constructed Medical Housing Compound. Constructed using ninety five 20ft-containers for housing and seven 40ft-containers for a cafeteria, the integration [...]

Tags: Construction, Containers, Environment, EUR, huge energy saving, Intermodal container, Khartoum, Nile river, Photovoltaic module, Salam Centre, Shipping, simplest solution, Soba, Studio M L.L.C., Sudan, Sustainability, Sustainable Architecture, sustainable building, United Kingdom

Makers’ Workshop in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

Makers’ Workshop, Designed by Terroir Pty Ltd, located on the Burnie, Tasmania coast of Australia’s southern-most State of Tasmania is a major investment by the regional industrial town of Burnie (pop. 20,000) in their post-industrial future. Burnie’s history is inextricably linked to large scale industries and port services, including a massive pulp and paper mill. [...]

Tags: Burnie, Burnie Tasmania, Geography of Australia, Geography of Oceania, Tasmania