The “MicroTower” turns an old shipping container on its head to create a parking booth and also urban amenity—a bicycle-storage space, say, or an outdoor movie projector. The similarity to an office building is intentional. “This proposal imagines the parking booth as a new tower on the city’s skyline, realized at a scale both tall and small, its proportions and monolithic nature mimicking the office towers that surround it,” writes Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design. “Nevertheless, at forty feet in height, it assumes the role of both urban landmark and signage for the business of urban parking accommodations.”r.