Overlooking the site of the London 2012 Olympics, the new View Tube café is not what you’d normally expect from your local coffee shop. In fact, there are probably very few coffee shops built from old shipping containers and, if there are, they probably don’t look quite as cool as this one. We like cargotecture for a number of reasons and you can find a number of excellent and innovative examples in our previous blog ‘Thinking Outside The Container’.
This is ‘cargotecture’ at its best and it’s the 40th structure built from old shipping containers at London’s Container City. It was created by Urban Space Management and is two storeys high. Old containers from China were scrubbed out and fitted offsite. It took 3 months to put together and just a couple of days to crane into position.
The whole structure is recycled and it’s green too, with lighting controlled by motion sensors, solar controlled glass, weather compensation controlled heating and low energy light bulbs.
Upstairs there is a large class room and the aforementioned observation gallery overlooking what will be the fantastic looking venue for the London 2012 Olympics. Right now, however, it’s a building site with enough cranes, diggers and builder’s butts cracks on view to put anyone off their panini and latte. More pics of the cafe below.
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