In Ready Player One, the novel by Ernie Clines that was adapted into a 2018 Stephen Spielberg movie, protagonist Wade Owen Watts lives in The Stacks, a futuristic vertical trailer park towering ...

The brightly colored steel boxes are being repurposed by developers in an effort to liven up bars, cafes and restaurants inside food halls. By Julekha Dash To drum up publicity for his downtown ...

If you were to list inventions that most affect your life, shipping containers likely would not make the top ten. However, these simple metal storage boxes play a crucial role in transporting close to ...

The housing world has never been constant. Every other time, something new comes up and takes over the space. One that has marked its spot and stuck to it is shipping container homes. Photo courtesy ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Shipping containers are getting more use these days than for just shipping. They've been used to make new homes, and now they're being used to produce food in Buffalo. New York ...

Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design are exploring the use of shipping containers in energy-efficient design for sustainable housing. The schools received $150,000 last month for the project ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — High fences may make good neighbors, but don’t ask Howard Gutter, of Mariners Harbor, about storage containers. A commercial neighbor’s stacking of containers three stories high ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, ...

There are some truly creative ways to recycle and/or repurpose materials. For example, plastic waste (with a dash of bacteria) can become vanilla. It’s rarely a bad thing to help the environment in ...

The only container terminal at Oregon's Port of Portland is getting a second wind after the gateway was in danger of shutting down. At a launch event Wednesday, the port's Terminal 6 was rechristened ...

To drum up publicity for his downtown Indianapolis food hall, Craig Baker posted photos of orange, turquoise and hot pink shipping containers on Instagram. They might seem like an odd way to promote a ...