From London to Amsterdam to Mumbai, shipping containers have been celebrated as a cheap and easy way to provide pre-fab housing. But what is it like to live in one – and can they transcend pop-up ...

Homes are springing up around the world featuring the latest trend in green building: Transforming a shipping container into a home. As a home building material, these containers actually have a lot ...

Derek Robertson was a Politico Journalism Institute Fellow in June 2017. Detroit has long been known for turning raw metal into useful even beautiful objects; most often they came with wheels. Now, as ...

COSTA MESA – Students at the Waldorf School of Orange County will soon be going to class in steel shipping containers. That’s the goal of an innovative, environmentally friendly expansion project at ...

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 ...

Set on 141 private acres in rural New Hampshire, this stylish modern home is made of 15 steel shipping containers. “It is such a spectacular property,” said listing agent Susanna Corriveau, of ...

Sonic Steel, the creator of the Mark T, recently completed another notable example of shipping container-based architecture. Named the Mark VI - VIC, the tiny house features a well-designed interior ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When Carlos-Ameen Jureidini-Cully started selling refurbished sunglasses in 2008, he knew he couldn’t swing the high rent or multi-year ...