Stack a bunch of shipping containers together like Lego bricks and what do you get? In London’s Uxbridge area, you get a 120-room Travelodge hotel.
The 86 steel containers were outfitted in China with electric wiring, walls and bathrooms before being shipped off to their assembly location in the United Kingdom. After being stacked in their hotel configuration (two different sizes of containers were used), windows were installed and the rooms were decorated—before the outer skin of the hotel was built.
If the containers are ever needed for another location, they can be disassembled and used for another hotel—or go back to their previous job as shipping containers.
A second container hotel is underway at London’s Heathrow airport.
