Built on a temporary site and made entirely from recycled shipping containers, London's latest retail park lays claim to be the world's first ever "pop-up" shopping mall. The aptly-named "Boxpark" opened for business today along a vacant strip of east London's fashionable Shoreditch High Street. It is composed of 60 standard-size shipping containers, stacked two stories high and five rows wide. — cnn.com
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this is really wunnerful!
Call me cynical, but this just really isn't what the architects are claiming- for starters, shipping containers are used all over the world for shops and temporary markets. They have also consistently been used as temporary shops, and even in London, the rather crumby and less glamorous Elephant and Castle market is made of shipping containers- so I really don't see what is new here. In fact the level of ingenuity used by most shopkeepers in traditionally temporary shops from containers is usually far more interesting than here, where as the picture shows, they have just tried to make a traditional street frontage out of the ends of containers.... sorry to be negative, but don't believe the hype
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