from tragedy art

These are shipping containers tossed into a pile at a port in northern Japan. The photo is from the NY Times. I wonder why most of them are painted red?

Every once and a while some architect makes a splash with a building made out of old shipping containers. There are the usual pronouncements about how this marks a revolution pre-fab construction and the worlds' housing crisis can be solved, etc... I'm not sure how far you can push an 8' x 8' module before everyone gets bored.