Container City is a series of shipping container architecture and a trademark of “Urban Space Management”. It is principally a means of utilising standard forty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers, at the end of their life, to produce flexible accommodation and offices at low cost.
A number of buildings have been installed using this method, primarily in east London. The first (Container City Ⅰ) was installed in 2001, in four days, and fitted out over five months, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. This was expanded with a second phase (Container City Ⅱ) in 2002 and offices were constructed on the same site in the Riverside Building in 2005.