It’s a tiny house...It’s a shipping container...It’s your favorite micro-home trends mashed up into one! This 312-square-foot abode is a brand spanking new tiny house converted from a shipping container, with about a third of it carved out to form...
Using a dozen shipping containers—half in red, half in yellow for a very patriotic palette—People's Architecture Office built a striking pavilion with lots of interior seating and shaded walkways under cantilevered units. Oh, roof terraces!
The shipping container seems infinitely adaptable, whether functioning as a standalone tiny home, or as a section of a larger construction. It makes sense, then, that putting several of them together can also make for a forward-thinking school.
Designed by architect Josué Gillet of studio 2A Design, the angular Flying Box House lies on a site in the French town of Orgères, and comprises three stories of stacked shipping containers.
The unglamorous shipping container continues its advance into modern architecture with this striking lookout tower and wine-tasting facility in Tasmania. Here, timber-clad containers intersected with other containers frame incredible views of the...
For his clients, a Mexican architect combined eight shipping container units to form this house outside Tijuana, creating a 2,700-square-foot home with creature comforts.
Once an expanse of demolition rubble on the campus of Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, the field has now transformed into a dashing new research complex built from 35 shipping containers salvaged from a port seven miles away. Masterminded by...
It looks like Michigan has jumped on the shipping container bandwagon. The Detroit News recently reported that a second home in Michigan made (partially) out of the large, hardworking steel boxes recently finished construction. Local firm ModEco...
We know shipping containers can make some pretty awesome single-family homes, but what about a multi-unit apartment building? Washington, D.C. already has one such structure—a four-unit complex with wide-plank hardwood flooring and welded metal...
Located across the street from the Delaware River, this home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania fuses a stack of standard shipping containers with a raised concrete foundation, putting a twist on the ever-popular love-hated shipping container home...
Yes, we've ranted about shipping container architecture going too far, this fresh example in Asheville, North Carolina comes off smart and attractive. Completed by local firm Form & Function Architecture, the 6,000-square-foot new restaurant was...
For a weekend in June this summer, a Stonehenge-like installation comprised of about 50 shipping containers took center stage at an art biennial in the Swiss city of Geneva focused on independent artists and their work. Designed by Swiss firm B...
Welcome to Curbed's new weekly round-up of architecture and design on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and (god forbid) even LinkedIn. Collected from retweets, intra-office chats, and, well, anything that sent us into a 140-character tizzy, this is...
This tiny apartment promises a solution to the problem of housing for cash-strapped, modern city dwellers: take your apartment with you when you move. Designed by Jeff Wilson, a professor of environmental science at Huston-Tillotson University in...
While there are some (like, for instance, us, about half an hour ago) who question where the whole repurposed shipping container trend has gone too far, there are still those who would expand their range of uses. Hence, the North West Walls street...
Shipping containers are often touted as some sort of godsend for a variety of housing conundrums. Plenty of shipping container homes are great examples of reusing an existing material, but don't get it twisted: Many steps—often costly—need to be...
The whole repurposed-shipping containers thing may have jumped the shark—assuming it hadn't already—with this shipping container-turned-periscope in Brazil. With the multitude of designs involving shipping containers, especially the ones for...
A couple weeks ago, we were treated to a very inventive, pretty unrealistic seeming rendering of a skyscraper made out of shipping containers, which came in third place in a contest to use shipping containers to build residential towers for the...
Welcome to Curbed's new weekly round-up of architecture and design on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and (god forbid) even LinkedIn. Collected from retweets, intra-office chats, and, well, anything that sent us into a 140-character tizzy, this is...
Custom-built shipping container homes have become more chic than they perhaps have any right to be, and architectural firm CRG Architects has now taken the trend to its logical extension with a proposal for twisting skyscrapers made of shipping...
For twice the cost of one super affordable shipping container home, this $40,000 effort in Costa Rica is three times larger and a cleaner break from the primitive container home look. Designed by architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe, the same guy behind...
Over in the Bekasi, Indonesia, a suburb of Jakarta, Indonesian studio Atelier Riri has joined the unofficial worldwide competition for the best shipping container home with this 1,660-square-foot house they designed for a couple and their two...
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Some designers revive shipping containers as jazzy modern homes, others, like Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki turn them into trippy life-size kaleidoscopes. Completed for the Art in a Container competition at the Kobe Biennale, a celebration of...
Here's a fun thought exercise: for $65K, would you rather buy a luxury tiny home made to order, or a custom shipping container home already equipped with a bathroom, laundry units, Bose entertainment system, and everything else you need? That's...
Now that shipping containers have been used for everything from an artist commune and bar to a mansion and library, it's neat to see the good old steel boxes get repurposed for a more practical modern home. Down in Texas, long-time Dallas...
Another day dawns, and you can still expect shipping containers to pop up in any old place, taking the form of rooftop cabanas, condos, libraries, artist communes, even pretty stunning homes. Now, Taco Bell has officially joined the party,...
Structures built from shipping containers have become downright ubiquitous as of late, popping up in the form of libraries, artist communes, and even an inevitable mansion. Toy designer Debbie Glassberg became inspired to build her own residence...
The shipping container architectural renaissance marches on, continuing the advance into Washington, D.C., which has officially wrapped construction on its first shipping container apartment complex. Just two months ago, this four-unit dwelling...
