We’ve featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK’s container home kit, student housing, and even an entire container city in London. One ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing projects. Check out the full projects below instead of video.

It’s no surprise to see the popularity of shipping container homes increase in recent times, especially when architects just keep getting more and more creative with what they can do with them. Adding ...

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, ...

Founder, Michael de Jong came up the idea for the MEKA after years of building luxury homes in Belize, hiring Jason Halter and Christos Marcopoulous for the design. Michael states, “Many prospective ...

“This is a place for someone who is adventurous and appreciates creativity.” The shipping container home is being prefabricated at Container Homes USA in Cleveland. It is expected to arrive in ...

Shipping container homes aren't a new trend, but with soaring real estate prices, they're having their moment in the ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

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In Ernest Cline’s wildly popular novel, Ready Player One, people have been reduced to living in mobile homes stacked 10 and 20 high, bolted together with little more than rivets and bubble gum. Now, a ...

There’s a lot to be said for paring life down to the essentials. If you’ve ever lived in a cramped shoebox apartment you probably discovered there are actually benefits to a simplified lifestyle: you ...