Building a home from a shipping container is much like a large-scale Lego project. You can have an entire room delivered in one giant rectangular piece. Or, you can stack the containers together to ...

It’s a trend that’s been popping up throughout the city. Shipping containers are being used as building or additions to buildings. ABC-7 asked city officials about code compliance and where the line ...

The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an ambitious plan to build a new building made of old shipping containers—the site’s first permanent structure.

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When you think of affordable housing, you probably picture no-frills apartments, 1,200-square-foot houses in impoverished neighborhoods and tiny homes. Here's what's probably not on ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York City. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the ...

Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York City. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the ...

Larger-than-life Legos. A twist on tiny houses. Upscale upcycling. At the end of the day, a relatively new building method in housing and property structures starts with a plain, steel shipping ...

Jackson's planning and zoning commission held a public hearing Wednesday to hear input about what, if any, uses should be approved for shipping-container structures. Developer Quinn Strong did not ...