New eco-hotel at Everglades national park built for age of super hurricanes
by Richard Luscombe in Flamingo from on (#6XK0M)
Flamingo Lodge - constructed from repurposed shipping containers on stilts - replaces Florida facility battered by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma
A collection of repurposed shipping containers, welded together and fitted out to create an innovative new eco-hotel inside one of the country's most popular national parks, offers a vision of revival and resilience at the beginning of another potentially active Atlantic hurricane season.
The containers exist as the elevated 24-room Flamingo Lodge at the exposed southern tip of Florida's Everglades national park. It was built to replace the 1960s-era cinderblock construction that was finally demolished in 2009, four years after back-to-back hurricanes, Katrina and Wilma, tore it apart.
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