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 ...

A tiny house will never go out of style, which makes it a good investment. However, building one from scratch can be prohibitively expensive (unless you ordered a unit from Wayfair or Lowe's). Instead ...

The reasons for building shipping container homes are diverse and include the fact that these containers are globally available, affordable, sturdy, water-tight and versatile, not to mention that they ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — It's a house that stands out. That's because it's made out of shipping containers. Now, it's finished and ready for the welcome mat. This story is not just of a neat house, it's ...

“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 ...

Jason Jones always wanted to live in a small space. Two years ago, Jones quit his job as a teacher in Kansas City and moved to Garden City. He lived in his car for 7 months before he bought a house ...

General Motors is teaming with a Detroit urban farming nonprofit to build what the automaker says is the city's first occupied shipping container homestead. In a news release Wednesday, GM says the ...

Shipping containers seem to be all the rage these days, and if you’re on the University of Houston campus, there’s one you should check out. The container houses a mobile computing lab that was ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Worried they would never be able to afford to build their own home in Brooklyn, architect Michelle Bertomen and contractor David Boyle constructed one out ...

Design junkies could barely contain their giddiness when plans were floated this past spring for an office building fashioned from shipping containers, slated for the hip, emerging North Loop in ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — It's a house that stands out. That's because it's made out of shipping containers. Now, it's finished and ready for the welcome mat. This story is not just of a neat house, it's ...