I asked Does Shipping Container Architecture Make Sense? But now, in response to an architectural competition, Architect Mark Hogan of OpenScope Studio comes up with his own list of questions.

On the face of it, shipping container-based architecture can seem like a pretty bad idea. The metal boxes are cramped, offer no insulation, and often require heavy modification to be of any use.

Banham and Brand helped make the container cool, plugging the shipping container into architecture’s enduring but never-quite-realized fascination with modularity: architecture as a giant game ...

Container Atlas brings together examples of shipping-container architecture from around the world. Here, one of the book's editors picks his top five projects from the book's latest edition.

People like shipping container buildings not only because ... The home is prominently featured in a new documentary about the architects' work, We Start With the Things We Find.

Melissa McFadgen, principal architect at NAC Architecture, estimates 25 to 50 years. “A life span of a shipping container used for cargo at sea can be 10 to 12 years. Consider that, at sea ...

There’s something about shipping container buildings ... gallerist Cindy Rucker and their daughter. The architects inserted bright orange container forms into the core of a two-story industrial ...

Discover some of the exciting possibilities of shipping container architecture, from disaster relief shelters to luxury condos, green sheds, vacation homes and off-the-grid adventurers.

RSDA offers an impressive example of shipping-container-based architecture with its Container House. Located in rural India, the project involved modifying shipping containers to create a pair of ...

A prototype was built and opened in July. The architects chose to use shipping containers for the following reasons: Interest in shipping container architecture has grown in tandem to the modular ...

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, local architecture firm River & Rain transformed ... Completed in 2017, the cargotecture dwelling doesn’t hide its shipping container roots yet manages to exude a welcoming ...

Here on Treehugger, we've often asked whether shipping container architecture makes sense. The answer is that it depends. While it makes sense to find a better way to recycle and readapt used ...