Minnesota couple's new 'adventure': Turning shipping containers into custom studios A civil engineer and his design-savvy wife launched Latitude Studios to make shipping containers into backyard studios, lakeside hangouts and more. May 8, 2021 — 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink: Every studio has a story, Andy Berg likes to say about the spaces he builds out of old shipping containers. On a recent blustery spring day, Berg was on the hunt for a new story. With wife Sarah tagging along for the first time, Berg gazed across stacks of multicolored containers at a 12-acre facility north of downtown Minneapolis, and took off down one of the massive corridors of steel in search of his next building project.