A Picture is worth...When Shipping Container Housing Goes Bad
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 09.29.08
Jimmy Stamp at Life Without Buildings compares current shipping container architecture proposals from LOT-EK, Adam Kalkin and others to Icelandic designer "B. Börkur Eiríksson’s dark vision of a smoggy dystopic future where we’re all crammed into mile-high towers by colossal mobile crane systems."
Extraordinary image follows:
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