10ShopsandRestaurantsMadefromShippingContainers-Remodelista

10 Shops and Restaurants Made from Shipping Containers - Remodelista

If they’ve already paved paradise and put up a parking lot, an innovative way to use a vacant lot or urban space in decay is to introduce an old shipping container. The mall of the future, it seems, is one that brings resourceful architecture and small businesses together.
Jon Darsky’s Del Popolo Pizza Truck is made from a transatlantic shipping container mounted to a Freightliner M2 truck.
Open from 2011 to 2015 in Shoreditch, London, Boxpark was a shopping mall made from stripped and refitted shipping containers for a series of low-cost, pop-up stores.
San Francisco floral designer Baylor Chapman’s shop, Lila B. Design, utilizes a shipping container as office and retail space alongside her open-air floral studio.
An inspired shipping container pop-up restaurant from an unexpected source: Hellmann’s mayonnaise company opened a tiny restaurant to serve free sandwiches for a day in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Set up temporarily for Design Forum Finland in Helsinki, SIS Deli & Café featured a fully functioning bakery with Tassel Lamps by Aalto & Aalto and furniture by Tero Kuitunen, two up-and-coming Finnish design studios.
Evergreen Brickworks, an environmental community center in Toronto, has a welcome hut made from a repurposed 20-square-foot shipping container that architect Levitt Goodman renovated and painted bright green.
He installed a rainwater chain to direct excess water into a rain barrel on the side of the hut.
Photograph courtesy of Guillaume Noiseux via Design Boom.
In collaboration with Muvbox, a company that specializes in shipping container conversions, product designers Guillaume Noiseux and Guillaume Sasseville opened Porchetta Box, a temporary restaurant in Montreal during the summer of 2012.
Architects Envelope A+D, members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory, put a shipping container to use when designing Suppenküche’s outdoor German biergarten. For more, see Restaurant Visit: Suppenküche Biergarten in SF.
Photograph by Janet Hall for Remodelista.
In London’s Southbank, Softroom Architects designed a two-story building from eight shipping containers for Mexican restaurant Wahaca.
Envelope A+D collaborated with Thierry Gaugain and Chris French Metal Studio to design the storefront for LA-based tech clothing company Aether. The shop, located in SF’s Hayes Valley, is built from three stacked shipping containers.
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