Everyone knows what shipping containers are for. Transporting computers, television sets, cheap toys and a million other kinds of goods from one side of the world to the other.
But it also turns out you can do something else with these giant metal boxes. From Bath to Brooklyn, imaginative homeowners are proving that containers can make terrific places to live.
In east London, they’ve gone one further and formed a thriving community. Directly across the river from the O2 Arena stands Trinity Buoy Wharf, a collection of old waterside buildings, in the centre of which is Container City. This consists of two multicoloured stacks of shipping containers, piled up four storeys high, and accommodating some 70 souls.
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