The Challenge This new bar and restaurant is made from 28 recycled shipping containers! The unique hotel is fronted by a tensile fabric canopy that represents a huge ship under sail. The architect’s nautical scheme for a “Shipping Container Hotel”, with views across the Bristol Channel to the Severn Bridge, included the creation of a pub and a 120-seat restaurant as well as the 45-room hotel. Each of the guest rooms, fitted out like a ships cabin, arrived on site ready-made inside the steel containers which were then literally stacked one on top of another. In line with the industrial boatyard theme, the fabric canopy was also a quirky design, with its supporting masts leaning like those of a ship keeling in high winds. The Solution Normally we’re required to keep the masts of our s

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