Sonic Steel, the creator of the Mark T, recently completed another notable example of shipping container-based architecture. Named the Mark VI - VIC, the tiny house features a well-designed interior ...

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The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

The container houses extra refrigeration and taps and maintains the large doors and locks. “You end up saving a little money in cost to retrofit one of these containers. It has walls, a roof and a ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

A Missoula company that turns metal shipping containers into ready-to-move-in homes has begun a limited run of its first model at a production facility at the old Bonner mill site.

Container-based construction Joshua Clark, chief executive of Ark Container Homes, started his business modifying steel shipping containers into livable spaces after losing two homes to natural ...