Part video chat, part sci-fi fantasy, the Portals art project uses tech and shipping containers to connect strangers across the world, selfies and all. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

A development team is building a 52-unit multifamily project out of 130 used shipping containers in West Palm Beach, Florida. When complete, it will be the largest shipping container housing project ...

Mining operations in South Africa require major investment in valuable equipment. Purchasing permanent storage facilities can ...

WASHINGTON — The four-story, 24-unit apartment building made of repurposed shipping containers in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood is complete. D.C. is home to two other notable buildings made from sea ...

CHESAPEAKE — City Council deferred a vote Tuesday on a proposed shipping container storage facility and warehouse in the Deep Creek area after hearing three hours of public comments — with residents ...

The public would feel many benefits if rail companies grabbed business back from trucking, but doing so will be tough.

Retailers today are being forced to innovate, and the ever-present battle between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar for sales is opening doors to some unique concepts. Take Co-Working In A Box’s new ...

ALAMEDA — The Planning Board has greenlighted a proposal to use former shipping containers to house offices, a cafe and an apartment on a former used car lot across from the Park Street Bridge. Two ...

Detroit — Cardboard, markers and utility knives in hand, a mix of high school and college students formed an assembly line inside a 30,000-foot industrial space in Corktown. As two students traced ...

Two shipping containers were dropped off this week on a grassy lot on the Near East Side that a builder hopes to turn into one of Columbus' first single-family homes built from a steel box. A ...

More than 30,000 apartments are being built in Dallas-Fort Worth. But a small Fort Worth project may be the most unique rental community on the way in North Texas. The 34-unit apartment project south ...