Over a decade, the average shipping container may travel over 2 million miles, or more than 80 times around the world. Containers are designed to move. But when they’re retired, those that escape the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Functioning a little like oversized Lego, the versatility of shipping containers ensures that architects never run out of ideas for using them as building blocks. This example, designed by Atelier-r, ...

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 ...

What happens on the ground matters — Your support makes it possible. We’re aiming to raise $7,000 by August 10, so we can deepen our reporting on the critical stories unfolding right now: grassroots ...