Starbucks Coffee
Shipping Container Drive-Thru
If you’re grabbing a venti latte to-go from the new Starbucks Coffee in Tukwila, Washington, you’ll be picking it up from a surprising location.
The coffee company is the latest to make use of eco-friendly shipping container design: it has converted four used containers into a drive-thru pop-up shop.
‘We were able to open our minds to using a very common element destined for the landfill as structure for a high-quality, drive-thru coffee house design – essentially creating an industrial beacon for sustainable thinking,’ says Tony Gale III, Starbucks’ corporate architect who headed the Tukwila project.
One container measures 6m, while the other three are 12m long. Had Starbucks not given them a renewed purpose, they would have otherwise been scrapped after 20 years of use.
Photos courtesy Tom Ackerman, Starbucks.
Comments
Creative genius.
It looks like a junkyard so the hipsters should love it! Good work playing the whole concerned global citizen approach. It worked for their 'fair trade' coffee so hopefully it works again.