You can probably blame Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash, but I think containers are fast becoming a new obsession for me! Sites like this don‘t help, especially when they become linked in my mind to artist’s communities and workspaces.

Welcome to The Container City Website - The original modular building comapny: "Container City™ is a highly versatile system of providing stylish but affordable accommodation for a range of uses made from shipping containers. The concept was devised by Urban Space Management.

Containers are an extremely flexible method of construction, being both modular in shape, extremely strong structurally and readily available.

Container Cities offer an alternative solution to traditional space provision. They are ideal for office and workspace, live-work and key-worker housing.

Container Cities do not even have to look like containers! It is a relatively simple matter to completely clad a building externally in a huge variety of materials.

Finally the benefits of Container Cities can truly be seen in short and medium term land use projects. Short-life sites can have Container Cities that simply unbolt and can be relocated or stored when land is required for alternative uses."