After chronicling local efforts of shipping container architects like Peter DeMaria, let's head to West Coast Green, currently being held at the San Jose convention center, because Inhabitat has ...

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High-profile Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has turned his considerable talent to shipping container-based architecture for the first time to produce this new Starbucks. The project is located in ...

The Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport District is welcoming eight vendors to set up shipping container kiosks along its promenade, which will begin operating in phases over the next few ...

Architectural firm Matt Elkan Architect has unveiled a beautiful home on Australia’s south coast, with a unique twist: it’s made out of four shipping containers. In addition to constructing the home ...

The showpiece of a planned new development at Edinburgh Park will be UK-artist David Mach’s first-ever building, named “Mach 1” by the project’s developers and investors, Parabola. Working with ...

Copenhagen design studio SAGA Space Architects has used a shipping container to create a tiny shelter with an out-of-this-world focus. Named FLEXHab, its compact interior sleeps up to four people and ...

With its configuration of nine shipping containers stacked around a central winter garden, Urban Rigger offers more than 3,200 square feet of housing on the Copenhagen harbor with stunning water views ...

This video follows the construction of a £1.5 million restaurant built from modified shipping containers. The project ...

Shipping containers were designed to move anywhere in the world; there are cranes and ships and trucks designed to move them. They were designed to be secure. They were designed to resist anything ...