It has all kinds of links and information on Inter-modal Steel Building
Units (ISBU).
There was one set I saw at DRB or BB of a modular office building
constructed of plain, used shipping containers in Germany or Denmark
that showed the reality of constructing a workspace out of these used,
somewhat unglamorous units on an ordinary urban lot. They were stacked
and interconnected with passthroughs. It is The Freitag flagship store:
"Freitag is a Swiss company that uses recycled truck tarps to create a
popular line of messenger bags"
Many galleries of pix of this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredag/sets/72157594143857672/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredag/sets/72157594143798366/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredag/sets/72157594149758105/
"The FREITAG SHOP ZURICH is completely built from rusty, recycled
freight-containers. Lovingly they were gutted, reinforced, piled up and
secured."
And a BB story: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/13/shipping-containers.html
("student housing made from shipping containers in Amsterdam")
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"A discussion thread on using shipping containers as housing on Making
Light turned up a fantastic wealth of material on the subject (it turns
out that the world's imbalance of trade with China means that most ports
have mountains of abandoned containers originating in China that no one
wants to ship back there)"