Last November, the Hale Mauliola Housing Navigation Service Center opened on Sand Island. It made national news for creating homeless shelters from retrofitted shipping containers. Some people were ...

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The lumber shortage and price increases on other building materials have forced many builders to think outside the box when it comes to living conditions. A company in Minnesota has created a home ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

A businessman proposes repurposing shipping containers to build a two-story, 14-unit apartment building in the Memphis Medical District. The project would push the envelope for the ways in which the ...

We’ve profiled homes made out of recycled shipping containers before, but Providence, Rhode Island’s upcoming Box Office project is a more ambitious attempt at making use of the corrugated steel boxes ...

The housing world has never been constant. Every other time, something new comes up and takes over the space. One that has marked its spot and stuck to it is shipping container homes. Photo courtesy ...

ALAMEDA — A total of 20 old shipping containers are being used to transform an historic building that once housed a steel company. The containers have been incorporated into the interior remodel of ...

Shipping containers were the prominent building material used to construct Boxyard RTP, the first public community and gathering place in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (RTP). Designed by ...