From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that ...

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 ...

From tiny houses to student housing, we continue to be impressed at what architects can make from the humble shipping container. Colo Crossings, from Australian studio Benn + Penna, is definitely one ...

Students build 12 units of housing for the homeless in a time of need. Many architecture students graduate from university without ever swinging a hammer. Learning how to actually build something is ...

In 1937, a young trucker named Malcolm McLean was delivering a load of cotton to a harbor in Hoboken, New Jersey. As he watched workers slowly transport the boxes by hand onto a ship, the story goes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Golany Architects’ rustic treehouse is an incredible construction built among mature Jerusalem pine trees. When first checking out the site, the architects found that two of the trees had grown in the ...

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 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, ...

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 ...