Shipping Containers

Hydroponic farming company Square Roots will expand thanks to a partnership with Gordon Foods.

March 12, 2019 - Curbed

A new food-based destination is popping up along the Tampa Riverwalk.

April 11, 2018 - Modern Cities

Lego-type housing construction has attracted the attention of two separate developers as an efficient means to provide housing for the city's large homeless population but has met objections from labor unions and the Mayor's Office.

September 22, 2016 - San Francisco Chronicle

Innovative Idaho developer wants to create a subdivision using shipping containers that will be targeted at eco-conscious home buyers looking for new options, first-time home-buyers and empty-nesters with a sale price: $152,000.

February 20, 2016 - Idaho Statesman

Shipping container houses are all the rage right now. So why not a shipping container farm?

February 23, 2014 - Grist

For years, architects have promoted the possibilities of transforming shipping containers into housing. But design and functional challenges make that process difficult. With its shippable modular buildings, MEKA may have found a livable alternative.

January 6, 2014 - Treehugger

From student dorms to pop-up shops, the potential uses for the world's ubiquitous shipping containers seemingly has few bounds. A New Jersey parking lot and 1,300 containers play the part of the New York Metropolitan Opera's warehouse.

August 24, 2013 - The New York Times

Architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer traces the historic roots of container architecture and argues that today's shipping container developments, like Proxy in San Francisco, are leading the way to a new kind of urbanism.

February 14, 2013 - Places Journal

A Detroit developer is moving ahead with plans for an innovative condo project that will repurpose shipping containers for medium-density housing, reports John Gallagher.

November 19, 2012 - Detroit Free Press

Lydia DePillis spotlights a host of temporary projects in D.C., from a shipping container fairgrounds to a three-month-long arts event, which have residents, leaders, and organizers seeing vacancy as an opportunity, and permanence as optional.

April 26, 2012 - Washington City Paper

Recycling shipping containers into housing has been growing in popularity, but the materials they are coated with may be cause for alarm.

September 3, 2011 - Arch Daily

A project now being considered by the City of Vancouver, B.C., would overhaul a handful of shipping containers to provide housing for the homeless.

March 31, 2011 - The Globe and Mail

Officials in the Dominican Republic have approved the creation of cities made of home built out of shipping containers -- part of efforts to aid earthquake-rattled Haiti.

March 8, 2010 - Inhabitat

Interest in houses made from shipping containers has been rising in Hawaii, where these inexpensive homes' designs can range from studios to multistory apartments.

November 5, 2008 - The Honolulu Adviser

A developer in New Jersey is looking to shipping containers as building blocks for affordable housing.

June 24, 2008 - Courier-Post

Developers in Detroit are planning a condominium project completely made out of used shipping containers. But city approval is needed before the project can move forward.

May 19, 2008 - The Detroit Free Press