The UK opened its new embassy – a collection of shipping containers painted white – in Mogadishu last week, and other European countries are following suit.
It's a collection of shipping containers sitting in a sort of mall of curated photo projects, where the casual bystander can contemplate what a year means to Mr. Hicks, or to the subjects of his photographs.
Today, in a show called "Glassworks," the Victor Hunt gallery in Brussels will unveil the results of his experiments with the moody material: Shift, an asymmetrical side table (about $11,100); Spot, a globe-shaped lamp sprinkled with glass shards (about $4,160); and Block, above, a collection of geometric containers (from about $1,575).
Nearby was a collection of cosmetic containers, including one with an elaborate shell lid decorated with silver and lapis lazuli.
This is the unassuming entrance to the Open Cell "bio-village", a collection of 45 shipping containers being converted into pop-up biotechnology labs and workspaces.
It is partly because condoms graphically suggest the sex act that they have so often been known through their covers: a collection of boxes and containers here range from antique exoticism (picturing desert camels) to whimsical contemporaneity (portraits of candidates from the last presidential election).
It surrounds a collection of converted shipping containers, large white plastic shelters and small tents.
"We went with a modern approach, and used texture to create sparkle," said Tormey, describing Mica wallpaper runners on tables, a collection of glimmering vintage containers, and chandeliers.
Such as: 10 sets of cocktail napkins festooned with flamingos, a collection of food storage containers in whimsical shapes and yards of a fabric featuring a very loud plaid.
On the posters are crude but colourful drawings showing a girl walking past rubbish, flies swarming around food on a table, a collection of tatty water containers and a woman's dirty hand.
Ian Simmons Monkseaton, Tyne and Wear Edgelands (Jonathan Cape) by the poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts is a small but fascinating study of the forgotten urban fringe where country and city blur in what is at first sight an unlovely collection of container depots, sewage works and allotments.
