Secret Powers of the Cordell St. Shipping-Container House
The Brookesmith home of Kevin Freeman and Jen Feldmann — fashioned from shipping containers by Numen Development’s John Walker and Katie Nichols — meets a national audience in the pages of the latest...
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Houston Buying 25 Shipping-Container Offices for Emergency Solar Power
A small fleet of modified shipping containers outfitted with adjustable solar panels will soon serve as mobile emergency power supplies for the city of Houston. City officials are currently...
View ArticleHeights Shipping Container Food Court
A food-truck-court-like conglomeration of shipping containers housing vendors selling waffles, burgers, barbecue, Mexican, Asian, or Cajun cuisine is being planned for a 25,000-sq.-ft. lot co-owned by...
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Moon Tower Inn’s New Shipping Container Beer Cooler
A few details on the brewery redo taking place on the hotdog reinvention grounds of the (currently shuttered) Moon Tower Inn at 3004 Canal St. in the Second Ward, from blogger Leslie Sprague: “One of...
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WTF Is Taking the Shipping Containers So Long at the Moon Tower Inn
An only slightly cleaned-up report on the progress of the brewery and shipping-container redo at the Canal St. bar, straight from the Moon Tower Inn Facebook page: “as you all should know, we’re late...
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Now Deployed and Awaiting the Next Emergency: Houston’s Solar Powered...
The city recently bought 2 custom roll-off trailers so it could set up its brand-new fleet of 17 solar-powered shipping containers without having to hire contractors or cranes. And the method of...
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Woodlands Shipping Container Co-Op Building: Open Source, Fully Leased
The epic Software Group is now passing around pix of the “creative co-op” building the company painstakingly constructed next to its Woodlands headquarters over the last 18 months — out of 11 recycled...
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Touring the Latest Reworked Structures in Nestor Topchy’s Inner Loop Compound
Local art guide Robert Boyd takes himself and readers on a photo tour of the outbuildings surrounding Nestor Topchy’s home “just south of the North Loop,” catching readers up on a few of the...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Shelter To Go
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Second Quadruple Shipping Container Duplex Getting Wrapped Up on Lehall St.
The front is up on the shipping-container-containing duplex under construction now at 3622 Lehall St. between Tierwester and Scott. The box-based structure is similar to builder Krieger Containers’s...
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Half-Masked Double-Wide Shipping Container House Up for Sale in Fifth Ward
Much of the front of container-composed 1709 Dan St. still sports that distinctive shipping container crimp, though the actual entrance to the 2-box structure has been partially camouflaged behind...
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House of 11 Stacked Shipping Containers on McGowen Now Awaiting Doors,...
When the owner’s work is finished on what he’s calling the McGowen Container House, the stack of boxes just east of 59 will be a 4-story house with a carport at ground level and a terrace atop the...
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