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

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Architect Brian Stark wants to tackle the country's affordable housing crisis — one shipping container at a time.

WASHINGTON — The four-story, 24-unit apartment building made of repurposed shipping containers in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood is complete. D.C. is home to two other notable buildings made from sea ...

San DiegoSan Diego — The region’s first housing project made from shipping containers could open as soon as April, providing homes for 21 formerly homeless veterans and possibly paving the way for ...

Three large, corrugated steel crates stacked a few yards from the bustling Fremont Street corridor look like they would be more at home in the Port of Los Angeles than in the center of downtown Las ...

ALAMEDA — The Planning Board has greenlighted a proposal to use former shipping containers to house offices, a cafe and an apartment on a former used car lot across from the Park Street Bridge. Two ...

Retailers today are being forced to innovate, and the ever-present battle between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar for sales is opening doors to some unique concepts. Take Co-Working In A Box’s new ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A developer wants to breath new life into property at the corner of Wealthy Street SE and Fuller Avenue that’s been vacant since the late 1970s, but the concept — converting ...

More than 30,000 apartments are being built in Dallas-Fort Worth. But a small Fort Worth project may be the most unique rental community on the way in North Texas. The 34-unit apartment project south ...

Detroit — Cardboard, markers and utility knives in hand, a mix of high school and college students formed an assembly line inside a 30,000-foot industrial space in Corktown. As two students traced ...

Two shipping containers were dropped off this week on a grassy lot on the Near East Side that a builder hopes to turn into one of Columbus' first single-family homes built from a steel box. A ...