Ever since the Puma City display last spring, I’ve been fascinated with using shipping containers for architecture. You can imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I discovered the Box Office, an office building made of shipping containers 50 miles away, in Providence, RI.
Designed by Distill Studio and built by Stack Design-Build, the Box Office is made by upcycling thirty two 40-foot long shipping containers and turned them into 12 office/studio spaces. It sits on a narrow lot between Harris Avenue and and Interstate 95, a perfect location for the transportation-inspired building.
The benefits of using shipping containers are environmental (recycling or upcycling), cost (much less expensive than a traditional building) and construction time. Check out this time-lapse video of the Box Office being constructed.
