Archive for the "Shipping Containers" Category

02.Sep.2010 Stack Moves into the Box Office!

Stack is pleased to announce that we have moved into our new space at the Box Office!

12.Jul.2010 Providence Journal features C2C and Stack

Environmental reporter Peter Lord has written an article on Containers to Clinics, which has recently sent a Stack-built clinic to Haiti. Lord provides an update from C2C, on the ground in Port-au-Prince.
Lord understands what Stack is all about, when he writes that we
focus on sustainable and innovative construction projects that lower costs by removing the [...]

11.Jun.2010 C2C Ships to Haiti!

by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
The staff of Containers to Clinics, the organization that engaged Stack to build a clinic out of two 20′ shipping containers, sent us these photos from Red Hook, Brooklyn, of the clinic getting loaded onto a cargo ship bound for Port-au-Prince.
The ISO containers fit in happily alongside their more utilitarian [...]

12.Apr.2010 Department of You Heard It Here First

The Wall Street Journal is featuring an article on collapsible shipping containers, including those by Cargoshell, which Stack featured here a few months ago.

16.Mar.2010 The Box Office on designboom

Noted architecture blog designboom.com has featured Stack’s project the Box Office on its architecture page. Units are available in the Box Office; occupancy is set for June 1.
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15.Mar.2010 Now Leasing – The Box Office – Available June 1

As the Box Office comes closer to completion, Stack Design Build would like to share some of the reasons why we’ve chosen to lease an office there, and why you should too. Units will be available for move-in on June 1.
Reason #1: Cutting-Edge Green Design

With its recycled shipping-container shell, and considerable energy savings, Distill Studio’s [...]

22.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/22/10

by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
First and foremost, two links on the architectural and building science implications of the earthquake in Haiti: The Infrastructurist on why so many buildings collapsed, when the destructive-but-not-catastrophic 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in CA was the same magnitude. Next, Architecture for Humanity lays out a plan for how to rebuild [...]

02.Dec.2009 Box Office Construction Timelapse

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You’ll want to watch this one fullscreen too. Video courtesy of Mr. Peter Gill Case.

Box Office Construction – Fall 2009

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You should definitely watch this full screen. Special thanks to Peter Gill Case for the video.

01.Dec.2009 Pictures from the ICA

By Alexander Villagomez, Design Build Assistant

On the night of Monday, November 16th, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston hosted an event for the Containers2Clinics project. Below are pictures taken at the event.

Check out the latest story of C2C’s progress on the “Here and Now” site. The story also features an audio file of the [...]