A couple builds a new home, repurposing a series of 11 shipping containers and an existing concrete foundation to maximal effect.

It’s easy to buy into the hype around shipping container homes, but there are some fundamentals you should know before going all...

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Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

Designed by one of America’s leading cargotecture proponents, this modern shipping container home in New Jersey is seeking a new...

An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.

You’ve decided to join the shipping container revolution.

Every week, we highlight one amazing Dwell home that went viral on Pinterest.

Heritage in the front, modern in the back—this renovation by FMD Architects is a family home with character.

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

This portable dwelling, made of two shipping containers, is ready for its next move.

These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as...

Tucked in the pine forests and granite mountains of California’s High Sierra, this home takes a page from the National Park...

Matt and Barbara Mooney worked with Michael Gooden of M Gooden Design, a boutique design firm in Dallas, to build a home out of...

Think outside the rectangle with these space-efficient shipping container designs.

A Brooklyn–based family enlists an architect to radically modernize their 1970s vacation home in Martha's Vineyard.

Gone are the days when shipping containers were used solely for transportation and storage.

Wrapped around a mature oak tree, a light-filled shipping container home embraces the outdoors in more ways than one.

A compact home’s rhythmic facade and daylight-drenched interiors create a connection to nature.

Sited on a typical 25-by-100-foot corner lot in Brooklyn, this 5,000-square-foot residence was built with 21 stacked shipping...

With the South Coast of Australia as its backdrop, this thoughtfully constructed home’s foundation consists of four shipping...

Architect Måns Tham collaborates with a young family to create an efficient and light-filled arrangement of eight shipping...

Near Hocking Hills, Ohio, a design-savvy couple nestle a glossy black shipping container within a heavily wooded—and...

Patrice Rios, founder of interior design firm Troo Designs and custom shipping container business Sige&Honey, has combined her...

Shipping containers make sturdy shells for these ready-to-buy, prefabricated homes.

A designer couple convert three shipping containers into a 530-square-foot, solar-powered dwelling on their family’s farm.