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For many people, the shipping container provides more than just a solid means of protection for their items while sending them across the country. For these tailgaters, the shipping container became the base of their barbequing, team-cheering, and comradery pleasure.

The quest for sustainable food sources and growing have led to many inventive solutions in the agricultural world over the last few years. The desire to reduce space needed for growing and a way to reduce water waste has led people to find new and improved solutions, some of which include shipping containers.

One of the many ways shipping containers can be used for alternate uses is for a makeshift gym. Not only are they easy to move around but don’t take up too much space and can hold lots of equipment at the same time.

One of the countless ideas for converting shipping containers is turning them into gyms. These can be turned into smaller personal gyms or larger ones, even CrossFit gyms.

Transforming shipping containers into buildings has become a major trend in recent years. People are turning them into anything: houses, greenhouses, and even mobile schools. Among these new trends are shipping container art studios.

Shipping Container Movie Theaters Shipping containers can be turned into almost anything with a little creativity, including movie theaters. All over the world shipping containers are being repurposed as movie theaters on both large and small scales.

Hydroponic gardens are a sight to behold. Eschewing conventional growing methods by removing the soil, hydroponic gardeners are changing the status quo and growing their gardens despite any difficulty. One of the newer forms of hydroponic growing includes growing gardens inside of recycled and reused shipping containers.

The Container Globe is a portal theatre that is easy to set up and break down. Shipping containers are stacked in threes and filled with seating and are laid out in a manner similar to Shakespeare’s original theatre.

In December 2014, Shared Studios launched the global public art initiative called Portals. Portals are gold-colored shipping containers equipped with immersive audiovisual technology and spread out in public sites around the world.