Shipping Container Homes

To learn more about Downtown Container Park in Las Vegas, check out this video from IPME. They’re big, boxy and made of steel. Resilient, too: They withstand wind, fire and earthquakes. Stacked on rail cars, ships and the trailer of flatbed trucks, the One of the best things about shipping container architecture is that you can go as small or as large as you like. Matt and Barbara Mooney of Dallas, TX worked with local firm M Gooden Design to create their 3,700-square-foot dream home using 14 40-foot One of the more niche trends in sustainable design of the past few years has been the re-use of shipping containers in order to create the structure of a building. Due to their convenient size, shipping containers are well-suited for use in houses and The city of Lynnwood is debating a proposal to ban allowing shipping containers as permanent storage in residential neighborhoods. "The city's proposing to prohibit them to be used as storage sheds in backyards and single family homes," said Paul Krauss Container House - April 2015: A video taken with Phil Murphy who is building a new house out of shipping containers on The Hummock. Mr Murphy is from Gympie and said he was initially attracted to the land 20 years ago after sitting on his friend's balcony 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 art .

The technology has revolutionized shipping, and Container Home Plans has shared this infographic on how the shipping container has changed the world since its invention in 1956. Watch above: A Carstairs company is thinking outside the box, literally, with their unusual approach to home construction. Mia Sosiak reports. CALGARY – Two young Albertans are turning shipping containers—also known as seacans— into hotel suites The massive metal boxes will soon house local businesses The plot’s quick access and visibility might make the shipping containers sitting ducks, but, Solomon said, it can also be good for business. And if he can’t stop graffiti, why not join A 1,200lb-man forced to move from his financially-troubled nursing home was hoisted from the building by a crane and driven to his new residence on a flatbed truck. Robert Butler, 43, was transported inside a shipping container from Bannister House in .