London'sBert and May Group recently launched a series of clever prefabricatedbox homes that take as little as one day to set up. The design firmhas created four different versions of its prefabricated ...

House in a Box is a family-owned company in Cincinnati turning shipping containers into dwelling spaces like homes, cabins, and offices. House in a Box is a family-owned company in Cincinnati turning ...

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense. When I was back in architecture school playing with shipping containers, it never occurred to me to treat them as empty boxes. Shipping containers ...

Living in a box that was meant to carry cargo across large distances seems like the opposite of luxury in every way. Still, contemporary tiny home startups have proven that the two concepts are ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Seth and Emily Britt, married for almost a decade, have built three shipping container homes under ...

Although it hasn’t been around for long, shipping container architecture has already started gaining ground in the building industry. Due to the modular nature of their structure, containers have ...

Do you have an inordinate amount of shipping containers? Are you trying to figure out what to do with all them? In the unlikely event that the answer to this question is “yes,” you’ll be pleased to ...

Shipping container homes—modern, utilitarian, industrial chic—may be all over the design blogs and shelter magazines, but in Houston? Not so much. But if one fledgling developer has his way, there ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...