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pop-up shopping centre opens in uk made from 60 steel shipping crates
3rd December 2011, Mail Online By ANTHONY BOND
Boxpark, The temporary structure is created from shipping containers ©reuters
Built entirely from recycled shipping containers, London’s latest retail park is not your average shopping experience.
Boxpark opened in east London today and claims to be the world’s first ever ‘pop-up’ shopping centre.
Located on trendy Shoreditch High Street, it is made up of 60 standard-sized shipping containers which are stacked two stories high and five rows wide.
But despite its bizarre set-up, the new shopping centre is already proving popular with celebrities and the public alike.
Rapper Dizzee Rascal was spotted buying trendy caps and jeans at the east London site today.
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