High-profile Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has turned his considerable talent to shipping container-based architecture for the first time to produce this new Starbucks. The project is located in ...

From the forests of the Cascade Mountains outside Seattle to the countryside in Lille, France, these dwellings prove that ...

Although modular by design, shipping container architecture have mostly been executed by individuals or firms on a case by case basis. Now, InterModal Design, a subsidiary of Hive Modular, is changing ...

They say history repeats itself, with trends coming and going and coming again in fashion, food, politics, pop culture, and even restaurant design. That seems to be the case with shipping-container ...

The New York office of architecture studio Grimshaw has drawn up plans for a range of prefabricated coronavirus testing centres within shipping containers, named D-Tec. Grimshaw designed the ...

Derry architect Patrick Bradley was so moved by the plight of homeless people, he decided to offer a night in his unusual and luxurious home, which featured on TV's Grand Designs series, to raise ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...

“There’s a green one and a pink one / and a blue one and a yellow one / and they’re all made out of ticky tacky / and they all look just the same…” Fifty years ago, folk singer and political activist ...

Two women are thinking inside the box when it comes to innovative housing solutions. Kathy Ratchford and Alison Lawtey have both repurposed steel shipping containers for residential purposes. Tracy ...

Never before has a Grand Designs participant offered up their house for charity auction, but with Christmas almost upon us, altruistic Co Londonderry architect Patrick Bradley is doing just that in ...