Explore the appeal of shipping container homes, known for their faster construction, durability, and lower price points. This ...

Although modular by design, shipping container architecture have mostly been executed by individuals or firms on a case by case basis. Now, InterModal Design, a subsidiary of Hive Modular, is changing ...

High-profile Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has turned his considerable talent to shipping container-based architecture for the first time to produce this new Starbucks. The project is located in ...

From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that even the simplest structures can create extraordinary outcomes ...

Building structures with shipping containers has been a fetish of designers and architects since futurist Stewart Brand wrote about converting a shipping container into an office in his 1994 book “How ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...

Derry architect Patrick Bradley was so moved by the plight of homeless people, he decided to offer a night in his unusual and luxurious home, which featured on TV's Grand Designs series, to raise ...

The New York office of architecture studio Grimshaw has drawn up plans for a range of prefabricated coronavirus testing centres within shipping containers, named D-Tec. Grimshaw designed the ...

Forget the retrofit of a shipping container into a building for one moment. Designboom showcases the plans of Polish architect Adam Wiercinski to use just the recycled frames of containers to ...

Two women are thinking inside the box when it comes to innovative housing solutions. Kathy Ratchford and Alison Lawtey have both repurposed steel shipping containers for residential purposes. Tracy ...