WASHINGTON — The four-story, 24-unit apartment building made of repurposed shipping containers in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood is complete. D.C. is home to two other notable buildings made from sea ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A home that's truly one-of-a-kind is the result of one man’s determination to win a bet. His friends laughed when Edward Merced said he could build the most colorful home in ...

As more and more architects are embracing the reclaimed shipping container trend, houses such as this one are starting to appear all over the world. This particular residence is the finished product ...

After the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City is getting prepped for the future with a plan to build disaster shelters out of shipping containers. Rather than makeshift dwellings for ...

They are the building blocks of the global economy, 20 million big steel boxes sloshing across oceans on mammoth container ships. Starting Monday, the first of 18 dented outcasts are set to be stacked ...