songdo new city container sunset observatory

in school, they had housed us in container classrooms to cope with the growing student population. the classrooms had been functional, rectangular, air-conditioned boxes where lectures (and chatting) reverbed off the walls alarmingly well. the common use of containers in such mundane ways is what makes this project by the AnL studio team so refreshing. here, they’ve taken a few old shipping containers, which by a simple angling, have transformed them into a fresh and contemporary piece of practical architecture.