Industrial roots - homely design. This 30sqm (323sqft) shipping container home in Mansfield transforms steel walls into a ...

The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.

Architect Brian Stark wants to tackle the country's affordable housing crisis — one shipping container at a time.

Because a shipping container is made of steel, it will have a tendency to rust over time. To keep the home lasting up to 50 years, you need to protect the steel with something like zinc paint.

It’s a steel shipping container so it’s going to be super water-resistant. They have impact-rated windows so if a hurricane comes through, it’s not a problem.

The newly completed house is made of 5½ shipping containers – the rectangular, corrugated steel boxes that can hop from a freighter to a freight train to the back of a tractor-trailer. It ...

A container home can be built out of one 20-foot shipping container, or several large 40-foot containers. The modular homes are made from steel, making them extra hardy against earthquakes ...

The finished product will be a two-bedroom home with 1,800 square feet of space. John Armon, another Cargohab investor, says in other parts of the country using shipping containers as a way to cut ...

Shipping container homes and buildings have gained traction in the last 10 years as people search for an alternative to traditional building methods and look for recyclable, durable products.

Front exterior Photo by Kelly Gray/Indy Realty Pics IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is ...

The first shipping container home is currently listed for $585,000. The median price for a home in Sioux Falls is $312,000, according to Realtor Association of the Sioux Empire.