The Drivelines Studios building in Johannesburg, designed by the architectural firm LOT-EK, is made out of 140 upcycled shipping containers.

The conclusion of our research was that, while not perfect, shipping container buildings provided the best portable building block. The key advantages are: low cost to build and transport a block ...

The proposed Steelcase building at 500 Fourth St. N. would be made primarily of former shipping containers. The building would host several entities related to local entrepreneur Scott Petinga.

He then gives a bit of history, tracing container buildings back to a patent in 1989. Here, he is patently wrong; people were playing with them back in the seventies.

These aren’t just boxes: They must be able to withstand up to 45,000 pounds of cargo per container, stacked up to four containers high, while rocking on the ocean. They are also more affordable than ...

At the other end of the spectrum are the luxury container projects by New York- and East Hampton-based MB Architecture. The firm’s work has progressed from (among other projects) a small ...

The container itself, which is roughly 20 feet long and weighs about 5,000 pounds empty, could weigh as much as 60,000 pounds when fully loaded. Yet, its load when striking a building was not ...

Building the right size container for your life is never a one-and-done practice. Step back and reflect on the size and strength of your container on a regular basis.

People like shipping container buildings not only because they look interesting but also because they seem to solve a problem — finding a use for the millions of empty steel shipping containers ...