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Restaurants and Theatres Mobility, affordability and easy-to-build benefits are one of the main reasons. For this reason, many reputable brands like Starbucks, Puma and various others have invested in shipping containers for their restaurant spaces. You may be wondering about how a container can be converted into a theatre? Imagine a conventionally-designed stage and instead of having the traditional seating setup. The theatre has many creatively-modified containers for seating boxes. Container restaurants and theatres have become a popular trend in many places around the world. Homes Using shipping containers to build large and spacious home is yet another excellent alternative that has been in the trend for past few decades. The reason why people prefer shipping containers is that they are far less expensive than buying a new home. They are easy to use and construct. They are environmentally friendly and are fire and flood proof, making them perfect for home building. Portable Medical Centres & Toilets Shipping containers are being fitted with medical equipment and used as portable medical clinics. In Sudan there is a solar-powered medical centre with state-of-the-art facilities. In developing countries and disaster zones, they can replace bricks and mortar buildings or containers can house generators to supply power to medical equipment. Toilets play an important play in our health. In any place where there are people, toilets are an essential fixture. However, providing these services can be a little difficult especially in places where there is an irregular flow of human traffic. Therefore as a sanitary washroom facility can be easily provided immediately at remote locations. Plus, portable toilets offer affordable yet hygienic washroom solution. Swimming Pools Shipping containers are the perfect, easy and quick way to have your own backyard swimming pool. It requires no planning permission, no digging, and no major work, shipping container swimming pools can be installed in no time. All you need to do is take out your swimsuit and enjoy swimming! The Bade Schiff in Berlin is a swimming pool created from recycled cargo containers and floating on the river Spree. There are also 40ft shipping containers that have been converted into outdoor swimming pools; great for cooling down! Eco-Bridge If you think about the size and shape of shipping containers, and how they’d look laid end to end, it becomes clear that they could easily form a perfect sturdy bridge. This is exactly what the architects at Messer-Architects had in mind when they designed the colourful Container Bridge in Ariel Sharon Park, Israel – adding innovation and industrial design to this former landfill site. Sources: https://www.johngood.co.uk/2017/06/23/10-amazing-uses-shipping-container/ https://www.scmwizard.com/innovative-uses-of-shipping-containers/ http://www.dainton.com/innovative-shipping-container-uses.html