Gallery: 16 Well-Traveled Shipping Con...

When architects choose shipping containers to expand their office space, it lends a bit of credibility to their validity as a contemporary building material. Not long ago we reported on a move to use shipping containers for prisons in Australia, which local citizens criticized as being inhumane. But in our world, recycled shipping containers are not only cool, they are also downright practical. So much so that Group 8 architects actually chose to incorporate sixteen of them into their whitewashed Geneva offices without giving them any kind of exterior cosmetic help.