Shipping containers may seem like a cheap path to a durable modern home, but costs add up when turning a bare metal box into a functional furnished house.

Homes are springing up around the world featuring the latest trend in green building: Transforming a shipping container into a home. As a home building material, these containers actually have a lot ...

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 ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

To create a dramatic entrance, homeowner Regan Foster cut a hefty steel door from one of the nine shipping containers that make up his family’s home, removed a panel, and fitted it with glass. Photo ...

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense. When I was back in architecture school playing with shipping containers, it never occurred to me to treat them as empty boxes. Shipping containers ...

Architect Ben Edwards created a 44m2 boomerang-shaped house using 3 shipping containers connected by an external deck on ...

We’re big fans of shipping container-based architecture here at Gizmag, and the latest such project to grab our attention comes via JYA-RCHITECTS and its Low Cost House. The budget-friendly dwelling ...

The idea of turning cargo containers into homes has graduated from cool to uber-cool. How do we know? Well, there now are knockoffs of them, in China. Yes, that's more than a bit strange. Today we'll ...

It’s hard to contain one’s enthusiasm for DeMaria Design’s Redondo Beach House. The home, constructed with a combination of prefabricated shipping containers and traditional buildings materials, is a ...

Seth and Emily Britt of Hocking Hills, Ohio, created a series of shipping container cabins called The Box Hop. Guests can stay in one of these cozy and modern rentals for upwards of $300 a night. Take ...

After seeing a post on Inhabitat titled Compact Prefab House is Made from a Single Shipping Container in Milan, Architect and writer Lance Hosey tweets: When will the shipping-container-home fad die?