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 ...

Many people dream of downsizing into a tiny house or off-grid cabin to reduce their expenses and simplify their lives. But the process of making that dream a reality can be both tricky and expensive, ...

BASTROP, Texas — Ellen and Gary Bearicks live in Sugarland, but they are frequently at their property in Bastrop, where they stay in their two shipping containers. “Isn't that a weird idea?” Ellen ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Worried they would never be able to afford to build their own home in Brooklyn, architect Michelle Bertomen and contractor David Boyle constructed one out ...

A student-led Texas A&M organization is looking to build on its past success while finishing up a three-year project of turning shipping containers into medical clinics. As they prepare for the final ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- UNCONTAINED, a leader in innovative container architecture, announced the successful completion of a groundbreaking project in the heart of Times Square: the ...

There's been a small vogue for houses and buildings made of shipping containers, which are cheap, plentiful, and often end up tossed in the sea (either on purpose or otherwise). This airy ...

General Motors’ Detroit Hamtramck Assembly plant has teamed up with Detroit non-profit group Michigan Urban Farming Initiative to help build the city’s first homestead made from a shipping container.

An Ohio construction company is looking to provide discounted shipping container homes, dubbed "mini mansions," to help those displaced by flooding in Wimberley. Brent Galligan, a partner with J.

In his recent video for his YouTube channel The Off Grid Hermit, the host says this whole thing started “as a whim,” the kind ...

Port authorities in Busan, South Korea, will build a "smart" container that will hopefully make lithium-ion battery transport safer. In order to do that, Busan is working with Vesta (South Korea’s ...