Up-cycled Shipping Container Homes & Studios

A guest house/garden retreat/playhouse by Jim Poteet of Poteet Architects in San Antonio, Texas

I have this obsession with up-cycled containers and I have posted about them here and here. I just love that you can take ugly, old shipping containers and turn them into something so beautiful. I mean to look at these pictures you would never guess that the original building material once sat on a dock or in a train yard. I am so in awe of these spaces, especially the artist studio. Click on the link at the bottom of the post to see more examples of container homes + studios. 

The Oakland, CA, home of architect Stephen Shoup of building Lab inc. has an attached office space for the firm's staff.

Cove Park - a group of artist residencies by Edo Architecture overlooking Loch Long in Scotland

Maziar Behrooz Architecture's Art Studio in the Hamptons

Prefab house from MEKA

All photos via Remodelista