Well, this is the week that we start the assembly of our new office and showroom buildings, constructed entirely out of reused cargo containers! The containers will be craned into place this Thursday, June 18th. The containers were prefabricated off site and will be ’stacked’ on top of each other to create the entire exterior structure. The interiors and other prefab materials will be installed over the course of the next several months in preparation for our grand opening this fall!
Ours will be the first commercial buildings designed and constructed from reused, international cargo containers in the city of Seattle! It’s also the largest cargo container building on the west coast!
For those of you that don’t know, cargo containers are stacked by the thousands in international ports all around the country. With the rising cost of transportation, it is no longer cost effective to ship empty containers back to the country of origin. So, we’re going to show how these engineering marvels can be reused and repurposed into useful, meaningful, and contemporary works of art and commerce!
We hope the buildings will become a destination for other designers, builders and city planners as a model for new design and construction.
Be sure to swing by to take a look!
These are our containers for the new building!
