Inhabitat’s Prefab Friday column has seen its fair share of shipping container homes, but we’ve never seen shipping containers paired with bamboo as a construction material before. But now, Bamboo ...

We’ve raved about Lot-Ek before for their ingenious conversions of industrial shipping containers into inhabitable modern spaces. And with their Container Home Kit (CHK) project, they’re bringing ...

Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

Rammed earth, sod, yak wool, reclaimed wood, oriented-strand board, straw ... nowadays, the smorgasbord of offerings in alternative building methods and materials is staggeringly abundant, if not a ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

Cheap, transportable and recyclable, Adam Kalkin’s container homes may be the next wave of prefab. Here is a look at several examples of his shipping container architecture. The architect Adam Kalkin ...

Sturdy, convenient to transport and relatively cheap – these are some of the factors that have made the conversion of shipping containers into modern living and working spaces an ever growing trend.

Buffalo might not be known for its container house community, but that could start to change. In 2018, we covered a new shipping container house that was built in Black Rock, but since that time we ...

What began as a business converting old shipping containers has evolved into a full-fledged modular construction company led by Modern Modular co-founder Dustin Anderson.

Many modern tiny houses are based on the concept of repurposing shipping containers – some are fans of this idea, and others point out the disadvantages. Either way, some of these projects are truly ...