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The new Freitag boutique in Zürich (cool photos here) is constructed of containers. Freitag makes messenger-stylee bags from old truck tarpaulins; their designs do not captivate me as much as the Barcelona stylee, such as Demano and Vaho (Vaho means "the breath of air that frosts a mirror", or something like that -- a concept I do not think English represents with a single word), but are distinct and bright.

Shipping containers can find reuse in lots of innovative ways. And shipping containers are eerily beautiful, as in Edward Burtynsky's large-format photographs of containers and other elements of the commercial infrastructure.