The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think twice about building a cottage. Saltbox is a Halifax-based company that has a sustainable solution to this problem — converting old shipping ...

Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

Building a container home was a dream come true for homeowners Shawn and Mike McConkey. Mike, an architectural engineer and construction superintendent was able to do a good portion of the building, ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

The Doug Ford government is aiming to slap restrictions on floating homes that are provoking controversy in Ontario's cottage country. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry cites "an increase ...

The hotel is located on the seaside of Yokohama where the cottages were staggered randomly on the site, giving the resort as a whole an organic look. Not much has been done to the land where the ...

-- which has exhibited its small, modernist model homes at the annual Portland Home & Garden Show -- is building a five-home, small-lot development next to a manufactured-home park in Eugene. The ...

The Indianapolis Home Show organizers are ready to show you a house in ship-shape. In fact, one might even say shipping shape. That’s because the event Jan. 20-29 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and ...

A shipping container converted into a vacation rental has been branded "an abomination" by furious local lawmakers. The container, which has no planning permission, came under scrutiny by concerned ...

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