Open daily 8am-5pm Gems don't come much more hidden than Cook House, two converted shipping containers tucked behind Hotel du Vin in Ouseburn.
At a recent conference the Tongan delegation showed a picture of their office – a converted shipping container – to emphasise their lack of funds.
The press of one big red button in a converted shipping container in a field annihilates enemies and any number of innocent "collaterals".
Many migrant workers in Russia live where they work, often in cramped housing that may consist of little more than a converted shipping container.
On the outskirts of Athens I visited a community where people live in converted shipping containers and queue for handouts of bread.
Between 1,000 and 3,000 people are estimated to live in this area, yet alternative accommodation – in the form of converted shipping containers – has been provided for only 800.
"Because, once they enter, what can they hope for?" Kovács isn't allowed into the transit zones; she meets her clients in converted shipping containers nearby.
Unaccompanied children who were registered as being in the camp were moved by French authorities into a fenced-off area with converted shipping containers.
"It's an embarrassment," says Saunders as he surveys matches from the facilities at Woolton FC, or rather, facility – a converted shipping container that has been the club's base since 1990.
In 2011, he deployed to Afghanistan, and spent six months living in a converted shipping container, eating canned kale, and trying to persuade a reluctant President Hamid Karzai to continue supporting counterinsurgency operations led by American soldiers.
