Pagnotta starts with the benefits: There are copious benefits to the so-called shipping container architecture model. A few of these advantages include: strength, durability, availability, and cost.

Shipping container homes, offices and buildings offer low cost, efficiency and flexibility. Container architecture is taking off, bringing green building many benefits. See some of the coolest new ...

Recently, architect Jennifer Siegal used shipping containers in a custom home in downtown L.A., and architect Peter DeMaria designed a container-based home now under construction in Redondo Beach.

In July, local architecture firm KTGY Architecture + Planning will be the first in L.A. to transform shipping containers into homeless housing when they break ground on Westlake's Hope on Alvarado ...

Whenever we cover shipping container-based architecture, we have to mention the frankly terrible performance of the metal boxes in both hot and cold weather. However, Benn + Penna has addressed ...

Shipping Container Architecture Getting Better-Looking By Dakota Smith Sep 25, 2008, 1:22pm PDT ...

A prototype was built and opened in July. The architects chose to use shipping containers for the following reasons: 1. To shorten the construction period by using a material already available 2.

Originally designed for a competition that sought container-based tower concepts for Mumbai (it placed third), CRG's twin towers would rise to a total height of 400 m (1,312 ft) and 200 m (656 ft ...

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. Han ...