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 ...

With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

In the beginning of the recession, shipping containers began stacking up on American shores. Architects saw an opportunity to recycle these relatively cheap building materials into homes and other ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

A collection of slide-projector film cards sit on LOT-EK cofounder Ada Tolla’s desk, rich with images of the first shipping container depot she and her partner, Giuseppe Lignano, found themselves in ...

“Once these containers get retired, and instead of going to the scrap yard where they’ll just sit, they have a green benefit when used for buildings,” said Casey Stowe, of Nelson+Stowe Development, ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A Pinellas Park business is thinking outside the box when it comes to giving people the option of high-quality, inexpensive container builds and modifications. The container ...