In Ready Player One, the novel by Ernie Clines that was adapted into a 2018 Stephen Spielberg movie, protagonist Wade Owen Watts lives in The Stacks, a futuristic vertical trailer park towering ...

The housing world has never been constant. Every other time, something new comes up and takes over the space. One that has marked its spot and stuck to it is shipping container homes. Photo courtesy ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Shipping containers are getting more use these days than for just shipping. They've been used to make new homes, and now they're being used to produce food in Buffalo. New York ...

The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.

Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design are exploring the use of shipping containers in energy-efficient design for sustainable housing. The schools received $150,000 last month for the project ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — High fences may make good neighbors, but don’t ask Howard Gutter, of Mariners Harbor, about storage containers. A commercial neighbor’s stacking of containers three stories high ...

About 20 million steel containers are used to transport cargo around the world, but what happens to old freight containers when they’re no longer needed? Well, a company in Brooklyn Heights known as ...

When Greg Walker and the team at Tavistock Restaurant Collection began formulating the idea of an outdoor food and entertainment hub, they visited shipping container parks from Las Vegas to London to ...

Travelers can book a number of unique stays through Airbnb, ranging from a Bavarian castle in the Texas Hill Country to treehouses and shipping container homes across the Lone Star State. This roundup ...