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

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Clarification: The majority of the Freight Yard project will consist of 30 recycled shipping containers, which includes the micro apartments but not the macro units. The shipping containers will not ...

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 are about 120 million shipping containers around the world at any given moment, doing what they were designed to do, which is to encase the oddly sized things that people enjoy (crop tops, ...

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 ...

It’s been a few years since the shipping container home trend started and since then architects and designers found new ways ...

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 ...