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 ...

In this guide, you will learn why shipping containers work so well for guest houses, what steps are involved, and how to turn a basic steel box into a cozy place anyone would enjoy staying in.

Emerging like a starburst out of the California desert, James Whitaker’s shipping container design will soon be constructed for a film producer and his wife. Nicknamed the “Joshua Tree Residence,” the ...

Not only did Hong Kong-based OVA envision a unique method of paying for this shipping-container hotel concept, the firm designed a structure that could be altered on a whim. Shipping container ...

Aedis Real Estate Group's Hope on Alvarado is the first in a series of area developments using shipping containers as a primary building material. The community will provide support services for ...

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 ...

Shipping containers are big in design news lately -- usually for their role in creative reuse or as emergency housing. But the logistics and supply chain industries are still innovating and improving ...

When a couple tapped Coates Design Architects to design a house that could accommodate their baby grand piano, they were also intrigued by the idea of using shipping containers to do the job. In ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Architectural design comes in all forms. In the case of the newly opened IDA on McKinley apartment building, that form is six stories of steel shipping containers that make up commercial and ...

CMG Containers expands its shipping container modification services to deliver fully customized, purpose-built ...