After traveling the seven seas for years, shipping containers are finding second lives as an affordable green building material. As such, there are architects and designers around the world who are ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing ...

Proving shipping containers can be used to create modern-day architectural marvels, a “Starburst” home on the front porch of Joshua Tree National Park is on the market for $3.5 million — and it hasn’t ...

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 ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio — The idea to start a business that converts shipping containers into affordable homes started around a fire pit. Sandra Whitley and Allison Lyons never did light the fire, but the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A home that's truly one-of-a-kind is the result of one man’s determination to win a bet. His friends laughed when Edward Merced said he could build the most colorful home in ...

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 ...

Backcountry Containers has designed lots of different types of shipping container homes, from large residential units to smaller rural retreats. For its Luke tiny house, the firm connects a large and ...

A house in St. Charles built of reused shipping containers surprised even its real estate agent by selling quickly. “I was a little nervous, to be honest,” said Annie Van Broeck, the Re/Max All Pro St ...