Oscar the Grouch isn’t the only one who loves living in a metal bin. Some Phoenix residents also have a taste for living in metal bins stacked on top of each other. Eighteen Phoenix families are ...

The interior volume of the home was filled with a container tower made up of four shipping containers. The tower was actually fitted to intersect with the original carriage house skeleton, which ...

This Jenga-like design could make it easier to quickly build housing, office space, and even makeshift hotels after a disaster. Over a decade, the average shipping container may travel over 2 million ...

We’ve counted Adam Kalkin’s incredible shipping container renovations as some of our favorite projects over the past few years, and the artist/architect just unveiled his latest work – a pop-up pirate ...

CRG Architects, which has offices in China and Nigeria, revealed its plans to make multistory multifamily dwellings made out of brightly painted shipping containers. According to Dezeen, the firm ...

Once upon a time, you had to buy passage on a freight ship headed out to sea in order to see a stack of containers piled high to the sky all around you. Nowadays more and more architects and builders ...

Though we appreciate shipping container-based architecture when it's done right, the ubiquitous metal boxes don't seem a good basis for a skyscraper. Still, the dream of a container tower refuses to ...

In a different take on shipping container student housing from Christian Salvati's work in Connecticut, a new student development has just opened to tenants in South Africa. In less than a year, ...

A “DOG ugly” rescue tower made out of shipping containers would be a “blight to the foreshore”, yet Holdfast Bay councillors put their support behind the $230,000 project last week. Elected members ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A giant “Lego”-style structure is slowly taking shape on a quiet side street near Port Townsend — a homemade training tower that could someday make the difference between life and ...

Instead of waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration to build an air traffic control tower, Coeur d’Alene Airport decided to build its own. The semipermanent structure built atop a stack of ...

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