I agree! This looks really great. The windows and patio really take this out of the world of standard shipping container architecture. Awesome.
–
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com

Done amazingly well – I’ve seen some great shipping container conversions but this definitely sets the standard The cantilever is unreal –
But also like the staggered look of the logo – like the container really has been ripped apart and simply placed back together.
The industrial raw feel is great! (and nice find archdaily!)

Do you have some plans !?

^^ There is a plan here: http://tinyurl.com/89h8j3

I love this project…but then again, I am bias because I have a huge love for Puma shoes and already own too many pairs and still eying more.

But with that put aside, I have to say I am really impressed with the use of shipping containers, this project and the Freitag building really push the bar (which you really should post that shipping container building…plus I really want to see the plans on that one…and this one.)

Anyway, thank you for keeping this site on its toes and posting so much architecture we would probably miss in the flood of information online.

hi
the two project ”Lowtech” and ”r&sie” seems very opposite.
In appearence, for the both, just Stacking of elements, but ……the first is post-industrial and the other seems post-human, the first is using components in their integrity with a kind of modernism religiosity (with a perfection of know how) but with a kind of conventionnal articulation, the second hide the components through a body without organs, without structuralism dependencies, producing confusion between parts and the whole entity.
The first is brandy, minimal and easy readable, consummable for mister NIKE-Prada as ”the easy listening”, the second is repuslsive, vomitable agressive, spiky and vaginal.

One is unfolding intelligence as a spectacle, the other is an anomaly, a toxic dynausaure, as a fragment of the unknow …

But the main question is which one is the ”mas macho” one Laurie Anderson) ? and Where is the wrong darwinism branchees, the bad mutant or the ideal elegancy.
a

Gran solucion, con elementos reciclados dando una imagen de vanguardia aplicando toques de Arquitectura moderna. Good work!!!!

interesting idea! :)

太有想法了

che sthhhorie !!!

Holy Crap! A Lot-Ek Project that actually got built! Usually they just pretend to be an architectural firm. Lot-Ek likes to promote shipping container projects as inexpensive and ecological, but in order to actually get it built, they needed the warbucks of an international garment company. And in order to make it interesting and cool enough for their own egos, they had to waste the structural power of containers on a design that needed great piles of re-enforcement on that cantilever. Oh, and no insulation? I wonder how much the air-conditioning bill is.

Lot-Ek and Puma are a perfect match actually, because Lot-Ek doesn’t do architecture. They do fashion, just like puma.

I came to this site and found this article and decided to use it for an assignment in my Visual & Create Art Program. One of the things I am supposed to include is an idea of the cost. How can I find out more about that detail in a timely fashion?

This course is my introduction to the study of art/design of any type; and I am starting rather late in life as a form of distraction for grief.

I really appreciate being able to read these comments.

I saw this on your site when it was posted, and while driving around south Boston yesterday, I came across the shipping containers of the puma store all disassembled and ready to be built.
Took some photos and added them to my flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stottyboombotty/3414797958/in/set-72157616292091231/

I can’t wait!

you want cantilevers, go to

http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/015_wozoco/index.html

but don’t be fooled thinking re-purposing containers is somehow green. overall carbon footprint of building and hauling these things around must really swamp conventional construction of shoe stores that stay put.