The reasons for building shipping container homes are diverse and include the fact that these containers are globally available, affordable, sturdy, water-tight and versatile, not to mention that they ...

Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

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 ...

This could be one way to help combat a shortage in housing. In recent years, some companies have gotten creative and started building homes out of unused shipping containers. This video from 2018 is ...

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 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping ...

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 ...

Pueblo's first container home has officially hit the market. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom home was constructed out of three shipping containers by indieDwell, a manufacturer of modular affordable ...

A quirky holiday rental has pulled in tourists from around the world thanks to its unique structure and the extraordinary story of how it came into existence. Rob DePiazza lost his home of 30 years to ...