04
Mar
Hong Kong activists propose converted shipping containers as a means of affordable housing for young residents in the cramped and overpriced city. The catch? They’d be located beneath highway overpasses.
04
Mar
11
Dec
Crate expectations: 11 shipping container housing ideas
Shipping containers can be transformed into a variety of innovative homes and hotels.
29
Sep
It seems that most multi-shipping container homes make use of only 3 or 4 containers. While not cramped by any means, these homes still fall on the petite side when it comes to square footage. The Redondo Beach House from prefab pioneer Peter DeMaria is made from 8 shipping containers. This spacious pad (20-foot ceilings and an outdoor lap pool anyone?) has won coveted architectural awards, making it the definitive shipping container trophy home.
8 eye-catching shipping container homes
17
Feb
A French shipping container home that’s just a little bit country
Located in the middle of the cow-filled French countryside, Patrick Partouche’s Container House Lille is a shipping container home that celebrates instead of obscures its industrial roots.
17
Jun
The Idea House is made from shipping containers, and just $59,500 gets you bamboo flooring, a galley kitchen and a mini-loo.
01
Jun
There are more than 300 million shipping containers sitting empty at ports around the world. Why not make some of them your new home?
23
Jan
05
Dec
There are more than 300 million shipping containers sitting empty at ports around the world, and they’re just waiting for someone to call them home.
09
Nov
There are more than 300 million shipping containers sitting empty at ports around the world, and they’re just waiting for someone to call them “home.”
