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Love them or hate them, shipping containers continue to spark the imaginations of architects worldwide. The latest example is the Container House, a vacation home expands its limited living space with ...

From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that ...

Athens, Greece-based firm Cocoon Modules offers an attractive take on the shipping container house with this eponymous dwelling. Topped by a green roof and able to run on or off-the-grid, the ...

Made using an upcycled, discarded shipping container and featuring its own personal wind turbine, three solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system, the Gaia off-grid container house embodies self ...

It often happens to see tiny homes on wheels that look just like normal houses. But it is not so often that these homes are made of shipping containers and put on a trailer. It might be easier to have ...

A $14k foldable prefab home is going viral, but does it offer a real escape from rising rent? Here is what you need to know.

In our East River Ferry/#untappedcities Instagram contest for the most “Untapped” photograph last fall, we chose this image of a shipping container house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, submitted by Reuben ...