More pics from London

[trixtah]

This is a photoset of the pics I took at Container City, located at Trinity Buoy Wharf in the London Docklands (which is a fascinating historical part of London). It's basically a bunch of apartments constructed out of revamped old shipping containers, and it's right on the wharf. 10 minutes' walk to East India DLR (and 15 minutes from there to Bank station in the middle of the City). It is the kind of place I'd love to live in (except for tourists like me taking pics - I surprised one guy emerging from a building, oops).

Those buildings are aspirational, and what I really aspire to is a portable house like one of these. Is it not sexy? Alas, it's only a prototype, but there're more pics on Fab Prefab. With some modifications, of course - I'd want more privacy for the ablutions area (don't designers have visitors?) and way more bookshelves. And I don't need a toilet TV (how long do people spend in there?)

Here's another container house constructed in Wellington - definitely check out the flickr set linked from the post. Oh, and the Quik House, which is one of the original container concepts, although a bit pricey for me.

Comments

[ilikerivers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not really into modern square architecture. But when we build it's going to be what we can organise/scrape together that is cheap and green, so who knows what we will end up with. I think we might do some mudbrick/rammed earth here.

Are there any community projects/ green living communities in your area? I know there's some projects/groups here.