With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

The lumber shortage and price increases on other building materials have forced many builders to think outside the box when it comes to living conditions. A company in Minnesota has created a home ...

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Steve Taylor spent a year and a half building a treehouse in Ladonia, Texas, using four shipping containers. The 50-foot structure has a cantilevered design, where one end is supported by steel beams ...

Architect Akash Dudhe of SAGI Architects has one solution to India’s burgeoning building scene — shipping containers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Box 500, the apartment building made of shipping containers in Salt Lake City. Project developers received the certificate of ...

Newark is among a growing number of cities turning to an unconventional solution for the housing shortage — shipping containers. Normally used to transport goods and merchandise on massive cargo ships ...

This video follows the construction of a £1.5 million restaurant built from modified shipping containers. The project combines industrial design with commercial functionality, highlighting the ...

OGDEN — Ogden officials are launching efforts to see whether storage units have a place in the city's residential neighborhoods as a six-story apartment building in Salt Lake City made of repurposed ...