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[[File:cmglee Container City 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Container City II at Trinity Buoy Wharf in September 2012.]]
'''Container City''' is the name given to two pieces of [[shipping container architecture]] on the [[Leamouth]] Peninsula. It is principally a means of utilising standard [[forty-foot equivalent unit]] shipping containers, at the end of their life, to produce flexible accommodation and offices at low cost.

A number of buildings have been installed using this method, primarily in East London. The first (''Container City I'') was installed in 2001, in four days, and fitted out over five months, at [[Trinity Buoy Wharf]], in the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]. This was expanded with a second phase (''Container City II'') in 2002 and offices were constructed on the same site in the ''Riverside Building'' in 2005.

A similar technique was used in ''Container Learn'', a 2001 project for [[Tower Hamlets College]], providing twelve extra classrooms on a site with limited space and completed in the time between terms.

The name is a trademark of "Urban Space Management". The company have now completed sixteen projects utilising the technique, which is suited to short and medium term land use – when the land becomes required for other uses, the containers can be reused elsewhere.

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed heights="180px">
Container City massing model.svg|Illustration of the structure of Container City I and Container City II showing how the shipping containers (each nominally 40'×8'×8') are stacked.
cmglee_Container_City_1.jpg|Container City I
cmglee_Container_City_Studio_12.jpg|Interior of a studio in Container City I
Leamouth_container_cities_1.jpg|Container City I and Container City II with an upturned container containing a stairwell between them
cmglee_Container_City_corridor.jpg|The second-floor walkway linking Container City I and Container City II
cmglee_Container_City_2nd_floor_view.jpg|View of Container City II from that walkway
cmglee_Container_City_3rd_floor_view.jpg|View of Container City II from the third-floor walkway linking Container City I and Container City II
</gallery>

== External links ==
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* [http://arkitainer.com Container Architecture from concept to construction]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jan/14/environment.environment ''Boxing clever''] ''[[The Guardian]]'' January 14, 2004
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101180940/http://www.containercity.com/projects/container-city-I ''Container City website'']

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[[Category:Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]
[[Category:House styles]]
[[Category:Housing in London]]
[[Category:Shipping containers]]
[[Category:Residential buildings completed in 2001]]


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