The clothing company Aether's retail store in San Francisco, part of the city's Proxy development, is made out of three shipping containers. (James Florio) Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of ...

Last November, the Hale Mauliola Housing Navigation Service Center opened on Sand Island. It made national news for creating homeless shelters from retrofitted shipping containers. Some people were ...

Ralph Butler built his weekend house in Royal Lakes, Illinois, out of shipping containers. Expand to read more Dilip Vishwanat Sugarfire's owner is building a restaurant out of them. LHM plans to use ...

There are about 120 million shipping containers around the world at any given moment, doing what they were designed to do, which is to encase the oddly sized things that people enjoy (crop tops, ...

Shipping containers are quickly becoming a trendy building material. While hip, they’re also practical. They are solid and much cheaper to build with than conventional construction. Projects around ...

Mining operations in South Africa require major investment in valuable equipment. Purchasing permanent storage facilities can be expensive and time-consuming, especially in remote mining areas. Hiring ...

For several years, West Columbia Gorge Humane Society Executive Director Micki Simeone longed to do something to spruce up the two shipping-container storage buildings on the east side of ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...