Dear architects: Stop trying to make shipping container buildings happen

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By Heather SmithSep 2, 2015, 6:00 pm91 pts
There are about 120 million shipping containers around the world at any given moment, doing what they were designed to do, which is to encase the oddly sized things that people enjoy (crop tops, frozen fish fillets) and then be completely interchangeable with each of their 120 million relatives — and thus…

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