Working on the tenth floor of the Smith Tower I have a sweeping view from my office of the Port of Seattle. It's one of my favorite views in the city, with the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound in the background. But looking at the port, with hundreds of multi-color containers, they look like orange, blue and gray legos, stacked up on eachother, waiting to be shipped or moved or whatever it is that they do with those things, I do wonder what happens to those containers once they've been used? I mean, when it no longer serves it's purpose of transporting things, does it go to a graveyard of containers? Not necessarily.

I found this awesome book the other day all about container architecture. The book is "Container Architecture: This Book Contains 6441 Containers" by Jure Kotnik [3]. Kotnik has found an inovative way to create beautiful, modern homes while using materials that have found a new use. in this case the shipping container. The book has photos [4] of beautiful homes [5] made from containers that are stacked on top of eachother to create amazing living spaces. I never would have imagined that a person could live in one of those things.

As far as modern architecture goes, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. This book is well worth checking out if you're interested in environmentally sound or alternative architecture [6].