On the face of it, shipping container-based architecture can seem like a pretty bad idea. The metal boxes are cramped, offer no insulation, and often require heavy modification to be of any use. That ...

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We typically associate MVRDV with high-profile projects like the Valley and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, but its Klabu sees the firm experimenting with shipping container-based architecture and ...

After chronicling local efforts of shipping container architects like Peter DeMaria, let's head to West Coast Green, currently being held at the San Jose convention center, because Inhabitat has ...

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, ...

Not only did Hong Kong-based OVA envision a unique method of paying for this shipping-container hotel concept, the firm designed a structure that could be altered on a whim. Shipping container ...

Repeating the word “location” ad nauseum passes wisdom in circles, because that’s the thing that matters. A masterpiece in a subdivision isn’t worth very much. And, more to the point, an underwater ...

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 ...

Although it hasn’t been around for long, shipping container architecture has already started gaining ground in the building industry. Due to the modular nature of their structure, containers have ...

Cargotecture is one of our favorite topics on Inhabitat and it should be no wonder why—building with shipping containers can be an affordable way to provide high-quality housing. Insite Portable ...

There’s something about shipping container buildings that gets people excited. Perhaps it’s seeing something so mundane and functional become beautiful and personal? Or witnessing Tetris-like blocks ...

With 57,794 people and counting sleeping in the streets of Los Angeles each night, the city is looking for innovative ways to create a lot of new affordable housing, and fast. Trailers, converted ...