E-commerce giant Amazon is evidently entering into America’s multi-billion dollar real estate business with a recent listing of shipping container houses. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, after all.

Building a home from a shipping container is much like a large-scale Lego project. You can have an entire room delivered in one giant rectangular piece. Or, you can stack the containers together to ...

Built out of 8 shipping containers, Zigloo Domestique is a 3 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in the suburbs of Victoria, Canada. The basement contains a large open rec room (which could be converted ...

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The reasons for building shipping container homes are diverse and include the fact that these containers are globally available, affordable, sturdy, water-tight and versatile, not to mention that they ...

Few homebuyers would notice an old shipping container for sale and think: “That’s it! That’s our new home.” But Seattle architect Kai Schwarz may change that. Since 2011, he has been working to ...

It's estimated that just under 800 million shipping containers are transported annually, according to Contimod. Due to the rise of online marketplaces like Amazon, the need for shipping containers ...