Common Ground

This guide to Common Ground in Seoul traces how a taxi garage in Gwangjin District became, in 2015, a shopping mall built from two hundred blue shipping containers by the Seoul firm Urbantainer. It follows the eight-year lease that shaped the deal, and the young designers and small restaurants who moved into the steel boxes when they could never afford rent elsewhere in the city. Notice the dents in the walls left over from the containers' old life at sea.