If you are a small business and looking for a better alternative to Urban Space’s Container City work space at Trinity Buoy, the superior waterfront studio’s, just up the road at the Royal Docks might be worth considering.

“East London Small Business Centre (ELSBC), one of the UK’s leading enterprise agencies, commented today that demand for their Waterfront Studios workspace is continuing to rise despite the current economic climate and the increasing impact of the credit crunch.

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Sustainable living and Trinity Buoy Wharf’s seven year old Container City gets a brief mention on the Miami Style Watch Blog:

“So Container City was built in 2001, but I still find this news to be current as it definitely started a movement towards container living. There are something like 22 MILLION of these in circulation- that is a lot of metal- and a lot …”

Sustainable Living in Container City

From Owen Hatherlay‘s of http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com “Nil Scrap Value: Silvertown” is an interesting Photo Essay on the local area and  Silvertown. Trinity Buoy Wharf even gets a mention!

“The main reason for the closure of the London Docks was Containerisation, which made the large workforces of the docks obsolete. Instead, the boxes are collected by the automated port at Tilbury. Within Trinity Buoy Wharf is ‘Container City’, where the boxes that decimated the London working class become a fun and imaginative urban living solution for young creatives”

More interesting stuff at http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com

This one at TBW is not so young, (or that creative for that matter!) ;o)