Functioning a little like oversized Lego, the versatility of shipping containers ensures that architects never run out of ...

Sonic Steel, the creator of the Mark T, recently completed another notable example of shipping container-based architecture.

Shigeru Ban Architects have launched Phase Two of their ongoing Disaster Relief Projects for victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan this spring. Using existing shipping containers of 20 ...

In this video, we take a look at 10 shipping container houses that mix innovation with sustainability. Some of them have been ...

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Cargotecture is one of our favorite topics on Inhabitat and it should be no wonder why—building with shipping containers can be an affordable way to provide high-quality housing. Insite Portable ...

After chronicling local efforts of shipping container architects like Peter DeMaria, let's head to West Coast Green, currently being held at the San Jose convention center, because Inhabitat has ...

CRG Architects, which has offices in China and Nigeria, revealed its plans to make multistory multifamily dwellings made out of brightly painted shipping containers. According to Dezeen, the firm ...

There may be no more unfortunate or annoying recent trend in architecture than the appropriation of the shipping container as a kind of "micro" shelter for humans. Annoying because it pretends to a ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

High-end clothing store Aether Apparel just launched its first standalone retail shop in San Francisco – and it’s made from three recycled shipping containers stacked one atop another! The ...

To review a sea container residence in Brookland, DCRA turned to the D.C. construction codes and found nothing that said it couldn't be done. Nowhere in D.C.’s municipal regulations or construction ...