After traveling the seven seas for years, shipping containers are finding second lives as an affordable green building material. As such, there are architects and designers around the world who are ...

Proving shipping containers can be used to create modern-day architectural marvels, a “Starburst” home on the front porch of Joshua Tree National Park is on the market for $3.5 million — and it hasn’t ...

Backcountry Containers has designed lots of different types of shipping container homes, from large residential units to smaller rural retreats. For its Luke tiny house, the firm connects a large and ...

You gotta love a good pun. Waco, Texas-based tiny home company CargoHome has several of them, and two serve as mottos for their unique and, we assume, profitable business: turning shipping containers ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A home that's truly one-of-a-kind is the result of one man’s determination to win a bet. His friends laughed when Edward Merced said he could build the most colorful home in ...

This California house hasn’t even been built yet and it already has an Instagram account -- and it’s being listed for millions. Known as the “Starburst” house, 0 Wagon Wheel Road in Joshua Tree, ...

This summer, David Schiller, co-owner of Paragon Designs construction and landscaping, put a house on the market in Minneapolis that was as unique as it was eye-catching. The three-bedroom, two-bath ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Down a cobblestone street a few meters from Las Ramblas boulevard, a vivid, contemporary-style building sits incongruously among the ancient churches and ...

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The modern marvel at 19140 Glades Place in the exclusive M25 section of Mountainside at Northstar was built using a series of shipping containers that were combined on-site. A one-of-a-kind ski-in/ski ...