Patalab Architecture has won approval to build a nine-storey office block from shipping containers, which will be the world's tallest building made from the modular structures.
When built, the office block in Whitechapel, east London, will be 26-metres-high plus a lift overrun. This will make it taller than the Freitag Store in Zurich ? the current tallest building made from shipping containers.
London studio Patalab Architecture choose to design the building from reused shipping containers for both practical and aesthetic reasons. "On the one hand this construction is a very economic way, with offsite modular manufacturing and a considerably shorter time on site," said Uwe Schmidt-Hess, founder of Patalab Architecture.
"On the other it is the aesthetic quality of the shipping containers that we feel responds well to the brief," he told Dezeen.
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