Rakhee Shobhit Design Associates (RSDA) offers an impressive example of shipping-container-based architecture with its Container House. Located on a picturesque plot in rural India, the project ...

It’s incredible what people can do with the simplest things. This used shipping container was modified to include a massive window that offers panoramic views of the surrounding forest. Its interior ...

Wisconsin's Backcountry Containers recently transformed a shipping container into a tiny house. Named the Kennedy Model, the compact home includes a well-designed and open interior layout that ...

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Yes, I am from a generation when technology virtually did not exist. I barely looked at my store-bought toys, making holidays and birthdays a nightmare for my parents. As a child, my preferred toys ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids company that gives old shipping containers new life as pools, homes and other living concepts is expanding. Blox CEO Chris Van Doeselaar expects to open the ...

Shipping containers have become trendy statement homes, sustainable solutions to a need for housing, and durable replacements for traditional homes at risk from climate change. Myriad variables go ...

Nothing seems as cold and unwelcoming as industrial shipping containers, yet the trend of converting them into cozy tiny homes continues to grow all over the world. Despite the austere exterior, they ...

Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

ZANESVILLE ‒ A Zanesville man has introduced tiny, indestructible homes as part of a growing homeowner trend. Dow Cameron, 25, founded Cameron Custom Containers in 2025 to transform drab, utilitarian ...

Jen Sansosti says reading about shipping containers in the industrial port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was, in part, what made her want to live in one. She resided across the river in Brooklyn in 2007, ...