Container Stack Pavilion, Dongshan, China

The 12 shipping containers that make up this office have been piled up and sliced to create a light-filled structure with double height ceilings in the centre and a spacious roof terrace. The People’s Architecture Office, designers of the Pavilion, says the structure can be disassembled and relocated, although architect and professor Lloyd Alter questions how easily: “There is some serious steel hidden in these boxes to let them do this - the kind of steel that […] makes me dubious this could be taken apart without some serious torching and cutting.”