The relatively cheap shipping container is a good foundation for a strong, mobile, and post-apocalyptic home. In the last two decades, architects have been incorporating shipping containers into ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

This story was originally published by Curbed before it joined New York Magazine. You can visit the Curbed archive at archive.curbed.com to read all stories published before October 2020. Shipping ...

2627 Banks St., New Orleans, La. For sale: $159,000 Shipping containers are the mainstay of the import business. Sturdy enough to crate cargo thousands of miles and handle the squalls of crossing the ...

DENNIS ODA / FEB. 4 The City Council is backing efforts to convert shipping containers for use as low-cost housing. The group FACE Hawaii (Faith Action for Community Equity) has had a modified ...

Today the humble shipping container is everywhere: 10 million of them arrived at U.S. ports in 2016 alone. Pexels/Pixabay On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies onto the deck of an ...