From housing aging parents to generating rental income, backyard homes are becoming an increasingly appealing option for ...

Matt & Paiton built a 45-ft high cube shipping container home for only $20,000, despite having no building experience. In this episode of DIY Tiny Home Build Stories, they share their clever use of ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Camille Preston A recent ...

Explore the challenges of shipping container architecture, from limited dimensions and thermal performance to structural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cargo container house. A shipping container home is a residence that uses a gently used or one-time-use shipping container as the ...

With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

A six-story building in downtown Phoenix is made almost entirely of shipping containers on the outside. On the inside, visitors will find vacation rentals with all of the essentials, along with a ...

Seah Liang Chiang spent a decade working in IT. But after watching the Netflix show 'Tiny House Nation,' Seah decided to make a career change. He set his sights on becoming a hotelier — specifically, ...