Sunday, September 5, 2010

Hotel made of shipping containers in London

LONDON: An eight-storey hotel is being built from 86 modified shipping container-like structures, stacked on top of each other and bolted together.


When complete in June, rooms at the new Travelodge in Uxbridge, west London, will cost £19 a night.

The chain said it may build up to half of its future hotels in this way.

The purpose-built containers are shipped from China with the bathrooms, plasterboard walls and electrical points already fitted.
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