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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The trend grew and shipping container homes are popular even today. In case you're not totally sold on the idea of owning a shipping container home, check out these ten inspiring projects that we've ...

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 ...

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 ...