Once upon a time, you had to buy passage on a freight ship headed out to sea in order to see a stack of containers piled high to the sky all around you. Nowadays more and more architects and builders ...

Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing projects. Check out the full projects below instead of the video.

What’s it really like to live in a shipping container home with two dogs? In this video, we take you inside our unique living ...

Driving northbound into Seattle, it’s hard to miss the hundreds of colorful metal cargo shipping containers resting amongst the tall orange cranes. And these very containers are at the center of ...

A streamlined cargo container home on display at the Kentucky State Fair was met with rave reviews and will soon house a single mother in Appalachia. Next year, five of the steel boxes will be ...

Cargo containers, long a staple of international trade, are designed to be affordable, sturdy and watertight. So it’s no surprise that for decades, the military, the needy — or just the hip — have ...

Do you have an inordinate amount of shipping containers? Are you trying to figure out what to do with all them? In the unlikely event that the answer to this question is “yes,” you’ll be pleased to ...

Just in time for a recession, cargo container homes approach the mainstream. Nov. 7, 2008 — -- You've probably seen them stacked high to the sky at city ports, left empty after traveling around ...

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