Inside a shipping container currently en route to a school in Puerto Rico, a solar microgrid is ready for deployment: As soon as the container arrives, the system, from a startup called BoxPower, can ...

Sonic Steel, the creator of the Mark T, recently completed another notable example of shipping container-based architecture.

From tiny houses to student housing, we continue to be impressed at what architects can make from the humble shipping container. Colo Crossings, from Australian studio Benn + Penna, is definitely one ...

Inside a shipping container in the U.K. city of Sheffield, new technology uses water and renewable electricity to pull CO2 out of the air. Other companies are already using “direct air capture” ...

Electric motorcycles are already a great way to explore beautiful, scenic areas of nature without disturbing the land or other travelers. And now a new tour company in New Zealand has taken this form ...

Bustling urban areas around the world are seeing a major increase in bicyclists cruising through their streets, some of them on very expensive electric bikes. To offer extra security for these pricey ...

Standard Solar Delivers 7.2 MW System at Port Newark Container Terminal, Advancing Clean Energy at One of the East Coast’s Busiest Shipping Hubs Built across a 320-acre active terminal, the system ...

Global architecture firm MVRDV has unveiled a modular, multi-functional clubhouse for Amsterdam-based social enterprise KLABU (“club” in Swahili), which engages refugees in rebuilding hope and joy ...

Jen Sansosti says reading about shipping containers in the industrial port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was, in part, what made her want to live in one. She resided across the river in Brooklyn in 2007, ...

There’s something about shipping container buildings that gets people excited. Perhaps it’s seeing something so mundane and functional become beautiful and personal? Or witnessing Tetris-like blocks ...