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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that there are some 300 million empty and discharged shipping containers sitting on the outskirts of ports across the globe. The trend towards repurposing them started gaining momentum almost 30 years ago and is now a fully-fledged design movement with ever increasingly relevance as design thinking around containers advances. 99c reception in a container designed by Inhouse Brand Architects Shipping containers have been repurposed as: Low cost housing, both urban and rural Premium-style housing at relatively low cost Spaza shops Grandstands Bazaars and markets Home offices Portable banks and datacenters Construction site offices Emergency shelters Schools Ticket booths Medical clinics Artists and musician’s studios Trendy homes The list really does go on, and on, and on&#8230; Containers are even the star of a portable hotel that travels to various destinations, and is ready for guests in five hours flat. They’re also becoming more and more popular as residential solutions, with a host of interior design ideas out there. Home extensions using containers have become common, because they’re affordable ways of renovating upmarket houses. They even provide self-contained, small homes on their own. A prefabricated container house can be placed on any site where there’s truck access and [...]]]></description>
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