Pagnotta starts with the benefits: There are copious benefits to the so-called shipping container architecture model. A few of these advantages include: strength, durability, availability, and cost.

A prototype was built and opened in July. The architects chose to use shipping containers for the following reasons: 1. To shorten the construction period by using a material already available 2.

In July, local architecture firm KTGY Architecture + Planning will be the first in L.A. to transform shipping containers into homeless housing when they break ground on Westlake's Hope on Alvarado ...

Whenever we cover shipping container-based architecture, we have to mention the frankly terrible performance of the metal boxes in both hot and cold weather. However, Benn + Penna has addressed ...

Shipping container homes aren’t just a design trend – they’re a bold statement about sustainability, creativity, and ...

CRG Architects, which has offices in China and Nigeria, revealed its plans to make multistory multifamily dwellings made out of brightly painted shipping containers. According to Dezeen, the firm ...

Designed by Merriman Anderson Architects, the project is repurposing 300 square-foot shipping containers into 19 one-bedroom "affordable" apartments. Merriman Anderson/Architects has partnered ...

Step inside the Container Guest House, a 320 m² sustainable micro-home designed by Poteet Architects in San Antonio, Texas.

advertisement 03-05-2009 TECH Would You Live in a Shipping Container? Cheap, transportable and recyclable, Adam Kalkin’s container homes may be the next wave of prefab.

Two California architects designed a luxurious take on the shipping container home. The tiny house is called "buhaus," a combination of bauhaus design style and the Malibu roots of the architects.

Via our sister site Racked, we learn that the folks at architecture firm LOT-EK have created the above concept for a nine-story mall made out of crates on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

Originally designed for a competition that sought container-based tower concepts for Mumbai (it placed third), CRG's twin towers would rise to a total height of 400 m (1,312 ft) and 200 m (656 ft ...