Last November, the Hale Mauliola Housing Navigation Service Center opened on Sand Island. It made national news for creating homeless shelters from retrofitted shipping containers. Some people were ...
Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...
>> SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE MILWAUKEE RIVER ALONG GREEN BAY ROAD. >> WE WANT SOMETHING THAT’S CONTEMPORARY. WE WANT SOMETHING THAT’S DIFFERENT. >> IS A HOME MADE ALMOST ENTIRELY OUT OF SHIPPING ...
More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...
Detroit has seen a lot of building development in recent years, from ground-up construction to historic renovations in commercial and residential projects. The trend is sparking creativity in and ...
Inside a chilly warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side, work is underway on what might be called the bleeding edge of less-conventional affordable housing. Owner Rod Newman and his company Eco Box ...
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 ...
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 ...
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- A local developer is building luxury-style homes out of shipping containers in Ypsilanti Township. Darius Smith, founder of ASJ Homes and the What’s Up Detroit show, is ...