A new-construction home offered in San Diego, CA, checks all the boxes. Rooftop deck with Pacific views? Check! Sleek, modern design? Check! Prefab construction? Wait, what?! You read that right. This ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing ...

Shipping containers are so common they often blend into the background, but these humble 20 (or 40)-foot metal boxes are a recent invention, and we can thank (or curse) them for creating the modern ...

This extraordinary 900 sq ft home in rural Texas proves that shipping containers can be transformed into modern, livable ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The real housing crisis didn’t happen in the early 2000s. It’s happening right now, as both Canada and the U.S. find that the need for affordable housing is growing more and more desperate every day.

Steel shipping containers are used to crate cargo up and down the Mississippi River and around the world. The Port of New Orleans is filled with the massive steel boxes. This weekend, the New Orleans ...

Sustainable businessman Erick Haglund appreciates the sturdiness of shipping containers. He knows that these steel boxes are stacked 10 high on cargo ships when they cross oceans. He respects the way ...

The building is located at the Port of Ashdod cargo area, located about 40 kilometers south of Tel Aviv. The shipping containers, once used in the transport of products and raw materials, were ...

Shipping containers are kind of like LEGO bricks. Sturdy and stackable, they can be crafted into all sorts of creative things, from fold-out coffee shops to surprisingly stylish modern homes. They ...