Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Over in Brazil, a local architecture studio, Plano Livre, ...

Work is scheduled to begin Tuesday on the first single-family home built of shipping containers in Columbus. The nonprofit agency Nothing Into Something Real Estate plans to break ground on the first ...

After traveling the seven seas for years, shipping containers are finding second lives as an affordable green building material. As such, there are architects and designers around the world who are ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- For more than a year, people traveling down West Benton Avenue in Flagstaff have been treated to an amazing sight: a tea-green home constructed of six shipping containers that rear ...

Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy. Now, a mobile, pop-up hotel concept in Belgium is ...

Shipping containers are so common they often blend into the background, but these humble 20 (or 40)-foot metal boxes are a recent invention, and we can thank (or curse) them for creating the modern ...

This extraordinary 900 sq ft home in rural Texas proves that shipping containers can be transformed into modern, livable spaces. Designed by Backcountry Containers, the Modern Side Stack is built from ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An increasingly popular type of building in places like Australia, New Zealand and Amsterdam is sprouting up here in South Florida. What are these buildings made out of? Actual ...

We've covered a lot of shipping container-based architecture projects but this one, by New York City and Naples-based firm Lot-ek, is larger than most. Named Drivelines Studios, it's a residential ...

Mary Jo Knapik is building what appears to be only the second shipping container house in the Chicago area. Her house, under construction in Westmont, follows one a St. Charles couple finished last ...

An incredibly modern woodland escape that is made entirely from shipping containers has hit the market in Northern Michigan—providing a unique and chic hideaway that is asking just $579,900. "Nestled ...