“The design concept was just to stack them like they would be in a container yard," architect and designer Douglas Hecker says of the Smoky Park Supper Club. “We wanted that association between the ...

This story appears in the Aug. 31 print edition of Transport Topics. There is nothing glamorous about shipping containers. Their existence generally is one of sheer duty, hauling cargo from one point ...

This 20-acre property in Northern Wisconsin makes for the ideal vacation home with "complete privacy and the freedom of ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When you think of affordable housing, you probably picture no-frills apartments, 1,200-square-foot houses in impoverished neighborhoods and tiny homes. Here's what's probably not on ...

Seattle Architect Matthew Coates, President of Coates Design Architects, has teamed up with Aircraft Structural Engineer James Green of Building Container LLC, to create a container home like no other ...

The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an ambitious plan to build a new building made of old shipping containers—the site’s first permanent structure.

In his recent video for his YouTube channel The Off Grid Hermit, the host says this whole thing started “as a whim,” the kind ...

Jackson's planning and zoning commission held a public hearing Wednesday to hear input about what, if any, uses should be approved for shipping-container structures. Developer Quinn Strong did not ...

Developer Quinn Strong sees steel shipping containers as the building blocks for future development in Cape Girardeau. But that future could be in jeopardy. The Cape Girardeau City Council earlier ...

This could be my car’s big break. Last week, reporter Carol Motsinger posted a story about the new Zach Galifianakis movie being filmed in Asheville needing extras — and cars built in 1997 or before.

Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York City. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An early morning explosion in Bend damaged several nearby businesses on Friday. As first reported by Central Oregon Daily, the explosion occurred at 5:23 a.m. inside a shipping ...