Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

The housing world has never been constant. Every other time, something new comes up and takes over the space. One that has marked its spot and stuck to it is shipping container homes. Photo courtesy ...

With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

In the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, a new affordable multifamily housing project using shipping containers resulted in 24 micro-units for formerly unhoused residents, according to Fast Company. ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A Pinellas Park business is thinking outside the box when it comes to giving people the option of high-quality, inexpensive container builds and modifications. The container ...

After his longtime home was damaged in Hurricane Irma, a local artist/collector made the "impractical" choice to patchwork ...

In Georgia and beyond, shipping containers are being repurposed into everything from homes and offices to pop-up cafés and classrooms. As the push for greener construction grows, these steel boxes ...

OGDEN — Ogden officials are launching efforts to see whether storage units have a place in the city's residential neighborhoods as a six-story apartment building in Salt Lake City made of repurposed ...

If the developer building a six-story apartment complex in Salt Lake City out of shipping containers had it to do over again, he says he probably wouldn’t. Box 500 Apartments, the blocky ...

In this video, I walk through the process of building a high-value restaurant using modular shipping containers from the early planning stage to structural design and on-site setup. It’s a modern ...