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, ...

We’ve profiled homes made out of recycled shipping containers before, but Providence, Rhode Island’s upcoming Box Office project is a more ambitious attempt at making use of the corrugated steel boxes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A businessman proposes repurposing shipping containers to build a two-story, 14-unit apartment building in the Memphis Medical District. The project would push the envelope for the ways in which the ...

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 ...