Every year, tens of millions of shipping containers move via water, rail and road, carrying cargo around the planet. The ubiquitous and nondescript steel boxes are always on the move, but plans ...

How Corpus Christi approaches a proposal to use shipping containers for affordable housing may set a precedent citywide. The concept proposed by developer Bryan Johnson would employ steel shipping ...

All it takes is a little ingenuity to improve the way we think about buildings. Consider for a moment those large steel shipping containers that are used to transport furniture, food, materials ...

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.

This project would use steel shipping containers to hold clients’ belongings rather than erecting a building to house the storage units.

Redondo beach house DeMaria Design Built from eight recycled steel shipping containers, this two-story, 3,000-square-foot home may be made of humble materials, but its location is anything but.

Made of steel sheet metal, the containers are made ready according to industrial standards for shipping to meet the customer’s request.

Steel shipping containers are used to crate cargo up and down the Mississippi River and around the world. The Port of New Orleans is filled with the massive steel boxes.

They were nearly perfect, but most stainless-steel containers have one basic flaw: They can’t be used to reheat food. This is ...