This story appears in the Aug. 31 print edition of Transport Topics. There is nothing glamorous about shipping containers. Their existence generally is one of sheer duty, hauling cargo from one point ...

“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 ...

Architectural design comes in all forms. In the case of the newly opened IDA on McKinley apartment building, that form is six stories of steel shipping containers that make up commercial and ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Seattle Architect Matthew Coates, President of Coates Design Architects, has teamed up with Aircraft Structural Engineer James Green of Building Container LLC, to create a container home like no other ...

The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an ambitious plan to build a new building made of old shipping containers—the site’s first permanent structure.

Developer Quinn Strong sees steel shipping containers as the building blocks for future development in Cape Girardeau. But that future could be in jeopardy. The Cape Girardeau City Council earlier ...

Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York City. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the ...

Larger-than-life Legos. A twist on tiny houses. Upscale upcycling. At the end of the day, a relatively new building method in housing and property structures starts with a plain, steel shipping ...

reporting from Kaohsiung, Taiwan — They’re used as roadside betel nut stands. Tool sheds for farms. And increasingly, as houses, offices, retail showrooms and restaurants. They’re the 40-foot steel ...