Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cargo container house. Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultimately, they decided on the most cost-effective choice: a home made out of a used, rent-to-own, 40-foot long shipping ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

The clothing company Aether's retail store in San Francisco, part of the city's Proxy development, is made out of three shipping containers. (James Florio) Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of ...