Shipping container residences can be elaborate and complex, but sometimes bringing it back to basics is the key to good living. At the request of their client, San Francisco-based architects YAMAMAR ...

Industrial shipping containers are usually associated with confined spaces, but they have become quite popular among architects for creating very diverse buildings, including residential homes.

It’s incredible what people can do with the simplest things. This used shipping container was modified to include a massive window that offers panoramic views of the surrounding forest. Its interior ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Over in Brazil, a local architecture studio, Plano Livre, ...

Using old shipping containers is seen as an environmentally friendly means of constructing new homes. Taking this one step further, Sustainer Homes has begun making off-grid container dwellings that ...

Shipping containers have long been used for freight transport, but in recent years, they’ve gained popularity as versatile ...

Relaying the soft-focus memory of a dream is frustrating and often funny: “There was a bear, but it was not a real bear, it was more like a bear-human — with fruit on its head, that wasn’t a head but ...

They’ve been used as trendy “tiny homes”, student accommodation and extravagant luxury houses. A whole shopping mall has been crafted from them, plus many a pop-up restaurant. Now the humble shipping ...

A home made out of something completely unexpected has landed on the real estate market in Indianapolis, Indiana, for $700,000. Yes, those massive things that Amazon uses when traveling by boat or ...