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Travelodge's Recycled Hotel :: The Final Result

We told you all about Travelodge's recycled hotel -- you know, the one with steel shipping containers stacked up together like legos -- and we brought you news last week that the property was open for business.

But what we were envisioning here wasn't quite this...well, boring.

We've got to give Travelodge props for making the interior feel homey and look just like any other hotel, but we kind of not-so-secretly wished this hotel would have looked like a big stack of shipping containers for the novelty of it.

World Architecture News had some fun facts about the green benefits of going the recycled-hotel route:

A traditional 100-bed hotel costs Travelodge around £5 million to build. Construction using shipping containers reduces costs by up to 10 per cent, making the bill for a hotel of the same size around £4.5 million. Using Verbus Modules also shaves approximately 25% off construction time, meaning a 100-bed hotel can be built in 30 weeks, instead of 40.

Travelodge is planning to build half of all hotels this way from now on (!) and the second shipping container hotel is already under construction at Heathrow.

A cool shot of the shipping containers being stacked into the building frame after the jump.