The Italian "starchitects" got into the shipping container building game in the 1990s, roughly a decade after these types of buildings first started appearing. (Shipping containers were invented ...

The company's founder is Micah Woods—a former woodshop and metal shop teacher—who translated ... the corrugated [surface]. It makes [building a shipping container home] more approachable ...

Lexi and Diego Newkirk built a two-story shipping container home on their land in Texas. They invested about $100,000 in the home, building a full-size kitchen and a luxury bathroom. The Newkirks ...

The nearly 60-year-old company has taken to the open road and set up shop for weeks at a time ... Recently, converted shipping container shops featuring Balmain, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianvito Rossi ...

The building, called IDA on McKinley, was developed by Local Studio, a downtown-Phoenix based design-build firm behind several other shipping container buildings in Phoenix, including Containers ...

The shipping container structures can be built much more quickly than a traditionally constructed building, and they can be flown to wherever they're needed with things like ovens and sinks ...

“There might be [some] inclusion of mechanical systems, but how can we cool buildings to begin with—before relying on the mechanical systems?” he adds. By retrofitting their shipping ...

Many people don't want a heavily-used... Shipping container buildings may be cool — but they're not always green Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting ...