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In his home office, Wardell runs his online art gallery Chester's Blacksmith Shop and researches his next project: opening a boutique hotel in New Zealand. His nephew peeks down from the "napping nook" secreted above the office. The desk is from Room & Board.

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their collection and reflect their passions. The shipping containers were stacked, joined with steel tubes, and lashed to reinforced floor joints to make them earthquake-safe.

Mike McConkey, a superintendent for a general contractor, tasked Chris Bittner of OBR Architecture with designing an environmentally sensitive home for he and his wife in San Diego County. Utilizing three shipping containers and a bevy of cost-effective appliances, they managed to limit the budget to $160,000.

This modular home prototype by Meka is a shipping container clad in cedar.

For an adaptive reuse project in Toronto, Levitt Goodman Architects used a shipping container as a visitors' center.

Maziar Behrooz designed this container studio set amid lush trees.

Atelier Riri devised a creative way to make living inside a shipping container in Indonesia’s tropical climate both comfortable and economical. The architects layered recycled pine, glass wool, and planter mesh on top of the home to help keep temperatures down.

Covered with wire mesh, the green roof will continue to vegetate over time.

Because the area is prone to wildfires, the architect and residents were compelled to use special flame retardant materials for the windows and roof.

With white-board walls, the BetaBox is set up to encourage creative thinking.