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

Check out six vendors that will repurpose shipping containers and set up kiosks at the Innovation and Design Building in Boston's Seaport District.

Architecture for a Change converted a shipping container into a Roast Republic coffee shop in South Africa.

Though we appreciate shipping container-based architecture when it's done right, the ubiquitous metal boxes don't seem a good basis for a skyscraper. Still, the dream of a container tower refuses ...

Here are 8 particularly eye-catching recycled shipping container dwellings that we wouldn’t mind coming home to (at least for a couple of nights).

Their project, The Lomax Container Housing Project, is creatively repurposing shipping containers into 19 one-bedroom apartments in Southeast Dallas at the intersection of South Malcolm X ...

Texas Tech alumni Jane’t Howey and Sheryl Estes came up with the design, turning a standard 8-foot by 20-foot shipping container into the world’s most portable open-air bar and grill.

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