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, ...

Shipping containers are so common they often blend into the background, but these humble 20 (or 40)-foot metal boxes are a recent invention, and we can thank (or curse) them for creating the modern ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An increasingly popular type of building in places like Australia, New Zealand and Amsterdam is sprouting up here in South Florida. What are these buildings made out of? Actual ...

An incredibly modern woodland escape that is made entirely from shipping containers has hit the market in Northern Michigan—providing a unique and chic hideaway that is asking just $579,900. "Nestled ...

Work is scheduled to begin Tuesday on the first single-family home built of shipping containers in Columbus. The nonprofit agency Nothing Into Something Real Estate plans to break ground on the first ...

We've covered a lot of shipping container-based architecture projects but this one, by New York City and Naples-based firm Lot-ek, is larger than most. Named Drivelines Studios, it's a residential ...

Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy. Now, a mobile, pop-up hotel concept in Belgium is ...

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 ...

Mary Jo Knapik is building what appears to be only the second shipping container house in the Chicago area. Her house, under construction in Westmont, follows one a St. Charles couple finished last ...

Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box. But not just any box. McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up ...