Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to Container Architecture Hardcover – April 1, 2010

I purchased this book and just as the other reviews said, it is a case study book full of high quality images of different types of container structures. It's very generic when describing the construction itself, does not provide any construction details or information. If you are looking for detail information this book is not the book your looking for. Only provides images, some floor plan distributions and a brief description of each structure. Overall I liked the book it's nice to have...

The book gives a survey of different types of buildings built with shipping containers around the world. It has a lot of examples (90) of stylish buildings designed with containers. It is beautifully illustrated with many high quality photos and small design plans. The book provides a short description of the buildings and a few simple building details. Could have been more details. But, if you want some ideas for new buildings with shipping containers this book will definitely help you.

The quality of the photographs was excellent and the book is well printed on good paper. There was a good history of the containers themselves as well as detailed descriptions of the various sizes in the industry. The book contained a much broader expanse of what can be done building with shipping containers. I expected just offices and homes but museums, retail spaces art projects were also included. It is well worth the cost. My fiance and I both enjoyed it.

This is a really informative book. If you are seriously thinking about building with shipping containers, this is well worth the money and will save you from possible mistakes. Lots of technical stuff I didn't understand, but I think this would bea valuable aid to any builder.

This excellent coffee table book is filled with excellent pictures of projects of all types from around the world. A truly excellent guide to the use of containers in architecture so far.

this is a lovely book with great collection of shipping container homes and designs, a good read. also good beginning read of breakdown of the concept and design... i do wish more of the examples were of actual home and not concepts.

So many many plans. Lots of pertinent information for someone thinking of building a container home/structure. Worth every penny!

It's pretty good.

There is SO MUCH that can be done with old shipping containers. Designed and built for the harshest of environments. Given new coating treatments, some basic metal work and in a few days a new home is available.

Not very practical. This book has a lot of beautiful photos of examples of container buildings but I brought this as a practical guide. Expensive for something I didn't want. Standard price for a photographic book but that's not what I was after.

Great book.

Would recommend

This book has nice pictures of different styles of container buildings, but I would've expected a bit more information out of it.