Remember when swimming in dumpsters became a fad in Williamsburg over the summer? Well our friends at Inhabitat just upped the ante, tipping us off to an entire city of made out of recycled shipping containers which recently sprang up about two hours outside of Mexico City. Along with a few residential apartments, the eco-friendly Container City houses restaurants, bars, shops, art galleries, and an open public area with ping pong tables. We want to live there. (Note: There’s also a Container City in London. As far as we can tell, they’re similar, but unrelated.) More images after the jump.
A clip from History Channel’s Modern Marvels about London’s Container City:
Want a container to call your own? Consider illy’s Push Button House or Ecopods; if you live in New York, you can check out this ongoing project from the people behind London’s Container City that’s going up on Lafayette Street.
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I was actually living 5 blocks from this exact location. The “Container City” is a sort of mini city inside of Cholula, Puebla Mexico, I seriously went there everyday after school and I would eat lunch with Christian (store owner/graffiti artist) and his BeatBox (store) staff. On Sunday nights all of the employees would get together and the cooks from “Flavr” (one of the restaurants) would cook us dinner. They were like a family to me and this place was my home. Every weekend they would have bands play at the bars and there even were “antros”or disco clubs in the back next to the paintball arena. I probably know the people that too these pictures, I was in some of the photoshoots for the advertisments. Definitely one of my favorite places in the world! Read more about it on my blog archives at “www.christianbarker.tumblr.com”
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very, very cool. can’t wait for the lafayette st location — that’s right by flavorpill hq!
[...] sprung up just outside of Mexico city Along with a few residential apartments, the eco-friendly Container City houses restaurants, bars, shops, art galleries, and an open public area with ping pong tables. [...]