Shanghai farm's shipping container visitor center thinks a little bigger
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The shipping container visitor center at Tony's Farm near Shanghai (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko/Playze)
ArchDaily reports that the construction, completed in 2011, adds office space, a visitor reception and lobby, which will also serve hotel rooms also planned for the farm (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko/Playze)
Shanghai has been the world's busiest container port since 2010 (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko/Playze)
The organic farm's new building is toward the more ambitious end of the scale, incorporating numerous recycled containers, cut up and configured to create remarkably light, open interiors (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko/Playze)
Though the work done on the containers is undeniably extensive, they still make up much of the building's fabric (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko/Playze)
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With Tony's Farm, international architecture studio Playze has done its bit for the recycled-shipping-container-as-architecture movement. The organic farm's new building is toward the more ambitious end of the scale, incorporating numerous recycled containers, cut up and configured to create remarkably light, open interiors.
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