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 ...

As shipping containers began stacking up on American shores, architects saw an opportunity to recycle these relatively cheap building materials into homes and other living spaces. In Providence, R ...

Closing thoughts Building your home from shipping containers is indeed a possibility. However, there’s a lot of work and sweat that’ll take place behind the scenes.

All it takes is a little ingenuity to improve the way we think about buildings. Consider for a moment those large steel shipping containers that are used to transport furniture, food, materials ...

What Is a Shipping Container Home? A shipping container home is a residence that uses a gently used or one-time-use shipping container as the exterior shell of a home. Instead of building a ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

Shipping containers are a growing source of cheap housing stock in a tightening real estate market. Developers are using them to build new apartment complexes, hospital extensions and even, according ...

The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.

Bloxx Building near Gulfport-Biloxi metro converts shipping containers to homes, offices & short term rentals in MS Coast real estate boom.

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 ...