Shipping containers are big in design news lately -- usually for their role in creative reuse or as emergency housing. But the logistics and supply chain industries are still innovating and improving ...

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 ...

Emerging like a starburst out of the California desert, James Whitaker’s shipping container design will soon be constructed for a film producer and his wife. Nicknamed the “Joshua Tree Residence,” the ...

Cargo containers, long a staple of international trade, are designed to be affordable, sturdy and watertight. So it’s no surprise that for decades, the military, the needy — or just the hip — have ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- There are 300 million unused shipping containers just sitting in landfills. Terri Crittenden and her team with Fredman Design Group realized the potential. "We were wondering what kind ...

Few tools of the global economy have survived without major innovations as long as the shipping container. The supply ructions around the world are presenting an opportunity to test that incumbency.

Few tools of the global economy have survived without major innovations as long as the shipping container. The supply disruptions around the world are presenting an opportunity to test that incumbency ...

After chronicling local efforts of shipping container architects like Peter DeMaria, let's head to West Coast Green, currently being held at the San Jose convention center, because Inhabitat has ...

Download the PDF of this article. What inspired the idea to create the farm system in a shipping container? We got started around 2009, and at the time there were only rooftop greenhouses coming into ...

Aedis Real Estate Group's Hope on Alvarado is the first in a series of area developments using shipping containers as a primary building material. The community will provide support services for ...

As airfreight faces increasing risks from undeclared lithium-ion batteries and evolving regulatory demands, the humble unit ...