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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — West Palm Beach commissioners on Monday night gave the green light to an innovative affordable housing project — units made from steel shipping containers. The 48-unit ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Travis Price sat in a chair in the cafeteria of Miner Elementary in Northeast Washington with his arms folded across his chest and a look of intense concentration on his face. The ...

Shipping containers might not be the first image that pops into your head when you think about green design. On closer inspection, though, it makes sense. They’re durable, cheap, plentiful, and ...

Carl Coffman is betting that in the near future, people will want to live in shipping containers. After 35 years as an excavation contractor, Coffman decided he wanted to spark a conversation about ...

Recycling material in architecture is becoming increasingly valued in order to enable the creation of sustainable projects. Certainly, naval containers have been one of the elements that have gained ...

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 ...

LAS CRUCES - Real estate broker Sandra Espiritu is building a new office on Lohman Avenue near Del Monte Street. Three weeks before its anticipated opening, the building is already presenting a ...

reporting from Kaohsiung, Taiwan — They’re used as roadside betel nut stands. Tool sheds for farms. And increasingly, as houses, offices, retail showrooms and restaurants. They’re the 40-foot steel ...