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 ...

Off of Route 6/10 is a big, bold, blue stack of shipping containers. Inside? Offices. How they came to be.

Shipping containers are becoming incredibly popular for everything from makeshift homes to workshops, but the price of buying ...

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 ...

From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...