In 1993, then 22-year-old Markus Freitag and his brother Daniel designed a messenger bag out of recycled truck tarps. Flash forward to 2006 and the company has built their flagship store out of 26 stacked shipping containers.
According to the company:
The FREITAG SHOP ZURICH is completely built from rusty, recycled freight-containers. Lovingly they were gutted, reinforced, piled up and secured. Zurich’s first bonsai-skyscraper: Low enough not to violate the city’s restriction on high-rise buildings. High enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.
Building using shipping containers is not all that new, or uncommon, and in fact many modernist and pre-fab home builders are incorporating them into their home designs, but this is the first time I’ve seen a structure such as this stacked so high. It must be a little disconcerting to be in there. Who knows, maybe it’ll help speed up the decision on what bag to buy.
Posted by Ben Garfinkel
Tags: Architecture, Design
isa (February 15th, 2007)
Freitag Container Tower Falling!!
looks like the tower is gone!