In the beginning of the recession, shipping containers began stacking up on American shores. Architects saw an opportunity to recycle these relatively cheap building materials into homes and other ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Additional cost: Chula Vista invested $6.6 million to create a 65-unit village, bringing the cost-per-unit to about $101,538. The village is on city property, and recreating it elsewhere would include ...

“Once these containers get retired, and instead of going to the scrap yard where they’ll just sit, they have a green benefit when used for buildings,” said Casey Stowe, of Nelson+Stowe Development, ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing projects. Check out the full projects below instead of the video.

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 ...

They spent just over a year building the home. — -- When Regan and Libby Foster set out to build a new home in Denver, Colorado, they went to the shipping yard instead of the home improvement ...