The humble shipping container changed the world sixty years ago when it revolutionized international trade. Now it’s getting a second career in architecture, where it started out as a no-frills, low-cost option but is fast getting incorporated into luxury designs too.

The Joshua Tree container house is the eye-catching desert oasis ingeniously constructed using multiple industrial shipping containers as its main building structure. Each container is strategically placed to let in ample natural lighting while still providing privacy.

The house was build with an unique shape, by an British designer and resembles the spiky sea anemone, three-bedroom home made of white shipping containers bursting out from a central point. It is a Californian film producer vacation home., right outside California’s Joshua Tree National Park.

The building has 2153 square-foot has a minimalist design for the interior as well and the containers were put at an angle that allows for interesting views from the central section of the house. There’s been a lot of care taken in aligning the internal halls of the containers, so when you go into the house at the start of the weekend and nobody else is there yet you can have all the bedroom doors open and enjoy standing in the middle and looking out into the desert.

The complex is powered by solar panels that form the canopy of the parking area, and will include a wooden deck designed to blend with the surrounding rocky terrain.