Re:START
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Container Mall was a temporary mall built from shipping containers in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand. It was a response to the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which destroyed most bu
Re:START in November 2013
Dignitaries at the Re:START opening (from left): Gerry Brownlee, Bob Parker, John Key, Roger Sutton, and Nicky Wagner; Brendon Burns and Paul Lonsdale are in the second row
Location of Re:START from October 2011 to June 2014
Re:START in July 2014
Boxpark
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Boxpark is a food and retail park made out of refitted shipping containers in Britain. It was founded by Roger Wade, who described it as the "world's first pop-up mall". The first Boxpark was launched
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…and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Organisers of the Christchurch mall project were threatened with legal action by organisers of a similar project in London (Boxpark) that was yet to open. Shipping containers were chosen because they were "strong & re-locatable" (the mall was developed while Christchurch still…
Boxpark Croydon
The first Boxpark opened in Shoreditch in 2011.
A coffee shop in Boxpark Shoreditch
Interior view of Boxpark Croydon