Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

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 ...

Ralph Butler built his weekend house in Royal Lakes, Illinois, out of shipping containers. Expand to read more Dilip Vishwanat Sugarfire's owner is building a restaurant out of them. LHM plans to use ...

Shipping containers are quickly becoming a trendy building material. While hip, they’re also practical. They are solid and much cheaper to build with than conventional construction. Projects around ...

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, ...

Carl Coffman is betting that in the near future, people will want to live in shipping containers. After 35 years as an excavation contractor, Coffman decided he wanted to spark a conversation about ...

“The design concept was just to stack them like they would be in a container yard," architect and designer Douglas Hecker says of the Smoky Park Supper Club. “We wanted that association between the ...

UPPER POTTSGROVE — Township commissioners were recently presented with a plan to partially develop a self-described “eyesore” at the end of Commerce Drive. This is the plan Richard Almquist presented ...