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Just outside of Round Top, TX, a town that’s about an hour’s drive from Austin, is home to the newest chic hotel to hit the area in a long time. The Flophouze Hotel doesn’t look like a boutique hotel from the highway with its red and blue shipping containers that you’d typically see belted to a…

With a name like, the Cottages at Hickory Crossing, it sounds like something you might find in a nice suburban neighborhood. But the Cottages at Hickory Crossing are not out in suburbia. They are, instead, an experimental group of 50 micro-houses for the chronically homeless.

Revolutsia will be an attractive, open-air nucleus of shopping, restaurant and retail in Wichita, Kansas that will be built out of shipping containers. This new shopping center won’t be your standard strip mall, the kind common on street corners all over the heartland.

Shipping containers are one of the most well-built, durable, portable structures made.  So much so, that they are being utilized every day as an alternative to traditional framed structures.

In the early 20th century, people left their farms to come to Detroit and work in factories like Henry Ford’s. Now, in the early 21st century, the Ford Motor Company Fund is setting out to educate kids about farming and nutrition with a mobile, indoor, year-round gardening project in Detroit. Cass Community Social Services is initiating a…

In December 2014, Shared Studios launched the global public art initiative called Portals. Portals are gold-colored shipping containers equipped with immersive audiovisual technology and spread out in public sites around the world.

Because shipping containers are now so common-place, we take them for granted in today’s society. But did you know that just 60 years ago we had no shipping containers? Let’s look at the history of shipping containers- what we used before them, who invented them and, the impact they have had on globalization.

Aside from the generally proven sturdiness of shipping containers, one other thing that you can do to protect your loved ones and yourself is making sure your shipping container home is built on a solid foundation.

Generally speaking, shipping containers are available in two types: regular and high cube. Both are available in a 20 feet and 40 feet variation. The price depends on type, size and whether the container is new or used. You will also need to factor in cost for transport, design, labor and materials.

Convert a Shipping Container Into Your Custom Storage Unit When you are in need of storage options, converting storage containers with shelving for your specific needs is certainly an economically and environmentally wise investment. Stacking materials without support or structure, especially in a disorganized fashion, will lead to a redundant duplication of your time and…

Shipping containers have become such a popular building material that designers are using them to build entire communities. The containers make it easy to quickly complete construction projects and provide affordable housing and workspace for businesses. Homeowners and business owners alike are eager to secure their space in shipping container communities and become part of…

The massive oversupply of shipping containers in ports all around the world has inspired many environmentalists to drum up interest in repurposing these containers. Because returning them to their port of origin is often too costly, it makes a lot of sense – both economically and environmentally – to repurpose these containers by turning them into home.