High-profile Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has turned his considerable talent to shipping container-based architecture for the first time to produce this new Starbucks. The project is located in ...

From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that ...

Although modular by design, shipping container architecture have mostly been executed by individuals or firms on a case by case basis. Now, InterModal Design, a subsidiary of Hive Modular, is changing ...

Building structures with shipping containers has been a fetish of designers and architects since futurist Stewart Brand wrote about converting a shipping container into an office in his 1994 book “How ...

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 ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...

I grew up around shipping containers; my dad made them. I played with them in architecture school, designing a summer camp out of them, fascinated by the handling technology that made them cheap and ...

Carl showcases his modern shipping container home designed by Relevant Buildings in Oregon. This 900 sqft home is constructed ...

They say history repeats itself, with trends coming and going and coming again in fashion, food, politics, pop culture, and even restaurant design. That seems to be the case with shipping-container ...

Two women are thinking inside the box when it comes to innovative housing solutions. Kathy Ratchford and Alison Lawtey have both repurposed steel shipping containers for residential purposes. Tracy ...