Shipping container construction pioneers LOT-EK and YoungWoo & Associates have been chosen to design and develop the new Pier 57, part of New York's new Hudson River redevelopment programme. The 400,000 square foot design for the former passenger shipping terminal will incorporate a world class cultural centre, a small business incubator centre, a public rooftop park and film festival venue.
Shipping containers are used extensively in the design with many of them having the walls and roof removed to create double wide and double high spaces.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic in Dublin, Ireland, a design by LiD Architects has been chosen for the new Dublin Parlour - a new civic space in the Dublin Docklands development. LiD will use 125 shipping containers to create a venue which will be used for music, theatre, markets and other public events. More information on the two projects can be found here and here.
