How do you almost double the size of an existing one-story 1950’s bungalow home in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, with a limited budget and zoning restraints? Keep on reading to find out… Continue reading →

Shipping containers are a great solution for building a home. However, they can also serve as an office, a shop and even as a hotel. Take a look at the Bayside Marina Hotel, by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects, in Kanagawa, Japan – It consists of 31 hotel guest rooms, which are made from 40 ft. steel shipping containers. Continue reading →

Who would have thought a container home would flourish in the desert… Take a look at Tim Palen’s spacious house and studio at Shadow Mountain. It is the first re-purposed shipping container home permitted and built in the Mojave Desert – a hybrid green machine for living. Continue reading →

Shipping container homes are awesome; they’re affordable, stylish and most of all sustainable. Three friends – a designer, an architect and a developer – decided to create a collection of container homes for the modern dweller; they define it as “one of the smartest ways to house yourself”.from the small ALP320 to the spacious 1280 Hella (priced at $39,900 – $128,000), this new collection is all about ‘modular, environmental, kinetic, assembly’ – or in short Meka. Continue reading →

Based in Victoria, Australia, Fulton + Salomon specialize in shipping container based architecture, offering various models from a small one bedroom 40 ft container home up to a 32 container luxury house. We spoke to Geoffrey Fulton, Founder of Fulton+Salomon, and discovered an architect who thinks outside the square but inside the box! A 20-40 foot shipping container “box”, that is. Continue reading →

A truly new way to live – that is what Zigloo.ca is all about. Located in Victoria B.C., Canada, this small company uses shipping containers as architectural building blocks; the benefits of which are lowering our carbon footprint, saving our forests and doing it affordably. We spoke with Keith Dewey, owner and designer of zigloo.ca, to find out more about the world of shipping container homes and CargoSpace Living. Continue reading →

Port-a-Bach is a holiday home made from a shipping container. It’s portable, secure, stylish, and can comfortably accommodate two adults and two children. How wonderful it is to just lay there, on the top bunk bed, read a book and enjoy the perfect indoor/outdoor flow. Continue reading →

Located in the Old Port of Montréal, this sea food diner presents a new concept – a modern re-interpretation for the old-fashioned canteen. The Resto Movbox is actually a recycled steel shipping container with a slick design, that opens-up in under a minute and transforms into a restaurant. Continue reading →

California-based IC Green manufactures and pre-assembles homes, studios and cabanas from recycled shipping containers. Whether a small guest house or studio or an expansive residence, these prefab homes come with large glass openings, a well insulated envelope and a modular living green roof. Continue reading →

Keith Dewey, the man behind Zigloo, constructed his own home out of eight used shipping containers stacked on a residential lot. See below what you can achieve by recycling freight container units combined with contemporary style and creativity. Continue reading →